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28-Jul-2023 1:30 AM

Women airline pilots: numbers are growing, but still a pitiful percentage

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Estimates of the percentage of the world's airline pilots who are female vary in the range of 4% to 6%.

This percentage is growing, but gender equality among cockpit crew - seen as the highest paid and highest status career in aviation - is very low by comparison with other fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Global aviation is starting to address the challenge of underrepresentation of women in pilot positions (and in other areas).

It has a lot of catching up to do.

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