At Aviex one of the AWPA members was met with a tirade from a woman when she merely asked if the woman was interested in flying. The woman said yes, and that she was a pilot, but she then launched into a tirade about how women don't need organisations like the AWPA to provide a support group for women pilots or to promote women pilot's interests. She said that the AWPA was an obsolete anachronism born in a time of discrimination which didn't exist any more, and it was now purposeless and we should just give it up (although what she was doing at the AWPA stand in the first place was beyond me...).
Thank you gentlemen. I will be directing people who query the AWPA's raison d'etre to this thread.