It appeared that many of our mainly male pilot colleagues could not accept this: adopting a “upstart trolley dollies should be seen and not heard” approach. Women and mothers attempting to interfere with their destiny, having a say in their own lives was apparently an unthinkable heresy!
Don't forget the continuous comment that cabin crew shouldn't be made a career because it's too costly for the company as it's better, and cheaper, to allow people to fly for a few years and then replace them by new cabin crew. Or the comment about how easily replaced we have been and that cabin crew just need a GCSE in Maths and English.
Funny that it seems fine for everyone else, except cabin crew, to make a career in BA.