Mixed Flight Crew (m/f) a Human Factors Issue in any airline ?

[tgflyer]

One of the best bosses I've had (non aviation) was female but the worst one was also a female.

Do you really want to go down that route? I have noticed that you, just like RvB, are trying to throw some sort of statistics out there. You think that's gonna work?
I've been in aviation for a few years now, and I am sad to say, that I have yet to have a female boss. In other words, I've only come across male bosses, and amongst that I've had the best boss and the worst boss. Can I say now that male pilots suck? No. I was an instructor for quite some time, and the few girls who were students were neither good or bad in comparison to their male classmates. They were all just that: students.

I can understand if you walk into a cockpit and find a female copilot, then you might have some sort of alertness. But maybe that is your problem, and not theirs.

I appreciate this ongoing discussion. I just want to throw out there: Lest we forget that by the end of the day, we are all humans, and as such we are all fallible.

Regards,

TG.

[Admiral346]

SR71, I think you've said it all...

Nic

[tom775257]

While I will not get into the discussion at all, or reveal the airline/which group....

From a very reliable source, in said airline, per person, one sex on average produced around 10 times more (relevant) flight data monitoring flags than the other sex. So yes, in this airline at least, there appears to be a certain sex that performs better than the other at this simplistic level. It would be interesting to perform a statistical test on this to balance out the difference in sample numbers (Chi-squared? - long time since stats).

This has nothing to do directly with the initial question, but addresses the subsequent answers.

Tom.

[Re-Heat]

It may well do so under the misguided positive discrimination policies of many countries...furthermore the statistical samples are probably too low in many cases to run such statistical tests...