Flightless parrot
Not being from the USA, I'm not sure that I understand this fully. Are you saying that women can't fly as well as men, or that there is a quota for women that has to be filled irrespective of ability?
There is a quota system in all large airlines, across the Western world. No company, let alone an airline, can afford to have a roll-call of employees that does not tick most of the required employee types. And since there may be only one or two applicants within each required type, standards may well have to be sacrificed to make up the numbers.
The UK health and police have suffered greatly from this policy, with numerous cases of substandard employees rising much higher within these organisations than they should have done.
For instance, 75% of UK doctors who are banned, were trained abroad. And this is not 'discrimination' as the GMC is a pro-diversity organisation. It is simply a case of bad doctors and the GMC being unwilling to admit that overseas training is simply not as good as UK or European training. So the GMC is putting UK patients at risk, so they can tick all the required boxes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-abroad.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...truck-off.html