Yes, women, no matter if on the flight deck or in the cabin, have to give up flight duty as soon as they know they are pregnant. However, over here they will stay at home at full pay until birth and then stay at home up to another 14 months while being paid by the state and then can take another 3 years of paternatiy leave after which the airline in question has to take them back, train them to proficiency and give them their old job back. Or they could come back earlier and then have a special right to part time work, but then, part time work is every employees right anyway.

All of the ladies on the flightdeck in my company that had kids returned lateron to fly and most continue to do so on part time. Of course it can mean being away from home for a couple days, but the pay versus the time away from home is apparently very well worth it.

Really? ;)

Got me there, freudian one. Maternity leave can be split in whatever ratio between both partners, but the paternity leave thing is still somewhat new and therefore probably more present. Not no mention, more blokes on tne flightdeck than girls, and therefore more paternity leave than maternity leave...

Where is that? Certainly NOT true in the US!

In EASA land yes. First 3 months you're grounded. Next 3 months, good to go assuming no complications. Final 3 months grounded again.

You obviously did not understand my post above. It clearly has nothing to do with whether female pilots are better or worse than male pilots. It has everything to do with why females are not choosing piloting as a profession. To a lesser extent than why there are very few females in the garbage collecting, sewer cleaning, and construction industry,...it is because not nearly as many of them are interested in it(or willing to do it).

Because they think differently. Not better, not worse just differently.

As for your structural brain differences theory...any expert scientist will tell you that the brain is one of the least understood parts of humans. Scientist can't even figure out the mysteries of sleep even though they all do it every night. As if they have any real analysis of the details of thought process. I can conclude that yours is lacking logic though along with an ability to comprehend a fairly simple post. While the latter is a well known phenomenon, the exact reason for the former is of course...a mystery.

I was involved in a recent study commissioned to determine why the imbalance exists between the two sexes in the cockpit and what could be done to encourage more female aircrew applicants. This was a hugely expensive and comprehensive project undertaken by a team of professional research scientists and industry experts conducted over a number of years. The conclusion of this research...women just aren't as interested as men, in much the same way as described in the previous post for other traditionally male dominated vocations such as bin collecting and construction. the solution: more education....teach more women how attractive flying can be!

"You can lead a horse to water..."

Let them drink in a little of this



The female pilot working for Emirates

Of course, exactly what I said.

There are some that like it like this Emirates lady but a hugely less percentage than men. Just accept reality, much less are interested as a career.

Which is good. I like having a pilot shortage, we don't need to nearly double the availability of pilots looking for work.

And, there is usually a need for doctors. Which is also works out perfect.