In my first post here, I issued a challenge, now I know how to refine it to be meaningful, in the context of this discussion....
For many years, I attended a pilot friend's summer farm BBQ. I would take every kid who wanted to go for a circuit. It sometimes took hours, there were dozens of kids. After many years of doing this, a very pleasant teenaged girl came up and introduced herself as Laura. She explained that I had taken her years earlier. She was so intrigued with flying, she joined Air Cadets, earned a glider license by scolarship, then a private powered license by scolarship. She must have really worked hard to do that! I took her flying a few more times, and taught her some advanced flying. I heard she went on to professional flying, though have lost track of her.
The challenge PPRuNers is now that we must each do something within our capacity, to inspire/enable a young women to fly. To be non-sexist, this should obviously be balanced with a similar effort toward young men ('cause it would not be right to discrimiate against them!), but we'll provide a special opportunity to the women.
It's our industry, and it needs growing. It would not be right to miss the opportunity to inspire women to take their place in it....