Equal opportunity - the ratio of men to women on earth is around 50/50 so why shouldn't 50% of pilots be women?
Whacky logic, that!
Equal
opportunity means no bias in
hiring - in either direction. Most of the airlines I've worked for seemed to have a noticeable bias
towards hiring women which is hardly equal opportunity.
The actual ratio of M to F in the job is a function of who wants to do it, not how hard it is for one or the other to get hired. To get 50/50 would require sexual discrimination on a monumental scale, just as a 50/50 ratio in midwifery isn't going to happen. Methinks there would be rather more customer resistance to that than there ever was to female airline pilots.
Are we to have equal opportunity programmes for wet-nurses next then?