Originally Posted by
mikewil
All that having gender quotas does, is denies the position for people more qualified and capable for the job.
What if the female candidates showed they were more suited for what VA was looking for? Maybe the typical teen/early twenties male personality wasn't what VA sought for this cadetship in particular and, like has been mentioned on other threads, empathy and getting along with people are what airlines are looking for. Maybe the women were better suited to this.
But at the end of the day, the fact is the cadetship makes up a fraction of recruitment. 4 positions going to women when according to your standards it should have only been 1 or 2 or none is hardly anything to complain about. Males will still make up the majority of pilot recruits.