Having been to St Kilda when it has been blowing a bit I will add my piece.
I have flown with women pilots and having been brought up in an age when it was all blokes I was sometimes somewhat apprehensive. Some needed experience to mature and overcome the predudice from other male pilots but in the end they are as able as any other. Some were absolutely useless, as with others of the opposite sex. Liz demonstrated to me, and hopefully to anybody else who is living in the past, that they are capable of doing the job as well as anybody.
Taking the ATS as an example how many of the heros on this thread could climb into a Lancaster, with a page of A4 as a guide, and fly it solo across the UK.