I know a German lady who was a commercial pilot from 1960 to 2004. She had to open her own flightschool/banner towing and air taxi company to get employment.
Biggest airplane she flew was a twotter, providing an internal german airline service, she in fact was the DO and founded that airline for an investor.
Said airline went on to be "Deutsche BA" and is now part of Air Berlin.
She still has the letter from Lufthansa, telling her that female pilots aren`t accepted...