Female pilot quotas
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Similar experiences in the 1990's before I left NZ. Don't know if it still happens but sounds like it...
Eagle during slow times would often take females with the bare minimum (1,000 & 100 ME, CPL) while guys with double that and many extras couldn't even get interviews. It happenned so often it became a source of regular crew room gossip. Several from one Ardmore based outfit in particular - almost looked like a pipeline. Also heard about training probs with some of them but were never ever "chopped". Just keep training em until they can fly... etc.
If I were a good female pilot who had genuinely worked my way up this kind of thing would really P*ss me off. I knew one female instructor in Air NZ regionals who told me she felt angry when she saw the kind of young females getting hired / promoted etc. She had a few choice words to describe them too!
I have seen similar in QF and CX so nothing new. Why don't they just admit it?
Eagle during slow times would often take females with the bare minimum (1,000 & 100 ME, CPL) while guys with double that and many extras couldn't even get interviews. It happenned so often it became a source of regular crew room gossip. Several from one Ardmore based outfit in particular - almost looked like a pipeline. Also heard about training probs with some of them but were never ever "chopped". Just keep training em until they can fly... etc.
If I were a good female pilot who had genuinely worked my way up this kind of thing would really P*ss me off. I knew one female instructor in Air NZ regionals who told me she felt angry when she saw the kind of young females getting hired / promoted etc. She had a few choice words to describe them too!
I have seen similar in QF and CX so nothing new. Why don't they just admit it?
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Pilot is an ASEXUAL word, without bias or gender or race differentiation
Seems for some people, the word "pilot" conjures up images of manhood. Anything else is lesss than expected.
Seems you're trying to change human nature with this equality thing. Like it or not, there is still a lot of punters out there who would prefer to hear Chuck Yeager's manly voice re-assuring them they will be safely delivered to the destination in one piece, y'all...
Why don't you ever see any female garbage "men"?
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It really makes me wonder if the person who ever made the decision to hire someone for their looks ever felt so comfortable with that decision the day that everything turned to sh!t and their family's life was dependant on the skills of the person in the pointy end. Think the size of their t!ts would matter then?
