Jepp, No hard feelings, with my spelling I'm not really in a position to be critical, but I just couldn't resist. Perhaps a sign of weakness on my part!
Whirly, thanks for the figures. I assume the ratio is changing in the direction of a better balance and I assume that useless careers advice at school may be a factor. I would also expect that as the percentage of female commercial pilots increases, the rate of increase will also rise, simply because of greater visibility.
My view is that a pilot is a pilot. There are poor pilots, competent pilots and outstanding pilots, whether they are male or female doesn't matter as far as I can see. That causes me to raise the question of why there needs to be a separate association for women pilots. Doesn't that sort of imply that they are different (as pilots) ?