Institutional discrimination. Exact same reason there aren't many women math and science professors. Or maybe women are genetically less predisposed to contracting shiny jet syndrome. Nah probably the first reason.
Women are generally too smart to get sucked into that dead-end deal.
That "dead end deal" as you put it provided me with a lucrative career.
Past tense noteworthy.
I took an early retirement. However I still have several friends flying the line that are doing quite well.
I don't buy into the line it's a "dead end deal" especially from those who never did it. Those comments are simply "sour grapes".
there is more a sense of struggle than success. Lots of talk about secondary jobs to achieve the financial success expected when they started the journey fifteen to twenty years ago.
I wonder. I was told that women don't/can't fly and really believed it. Then I got old and fat and too darned headstrong to care. But also too old to work for an airline.That sounds like an awful lot of other jobs in the real world. You start out with little pay and a less than stellar position and claw your way up. Sometimes your industry bears out promotion and financial stability, sometimes it doesn't. People act like the airline industry is the only place where this occurs.
As for women being airline pilots, I don't really see any barriers. They can do so if they choose. Most choose not to.
+1.That sounds like an awful lot of other jobs in the real world. You start out with little pay and a less than stellar position and claw your way up. Sometimes your industry bears out promotion and financial stability, sometimes it doesn't. People act like the airline industry is the only place where this occurs.
+2. There were definitely barriers in the past but not so much so any more.for women being airline pilots, I don't really see any barriers. They can do so if they choose. Most choose not to.
I took an early retirement. However I still have several friends flying the line that are doing quite well.
I don't buy into the line it's a "dead end deal" especially from those who never did it. Those comments are simply "sour grapes".
Interesting point, though slightly in error. In the Biological sciences, the numbers of women have been climbing steadily for some time, and may have actually reached parity. In the more mathematical sciences like physics and engineering, women participants are lacking.
In my department (Astronomy) the graduate students and postdocs are roughly at parity. The faculty are mostly men, though the number have been changing. Both my undergraduate and graduate advisors have been women, for what that's worth.
Check English, Communications, Ethnic Studies.A quick perusal of my own school's Astronomy department reveals four women in a department of 21 faculty.
We have about 30 pilots and I am the only female so I think the ratio is even smaller in areas of aviation other than the airlines.A quick perusal of my own school's Astronomy department reveals four women in a department of 21 faculty.
+1.
+2. There were definitely barriers in the past but not so much so any more.
It's a little bit higher here (four out of fifteen or so - it depends on who you count from Physics) but that sounds pretty typical. Also, 21 faculty in an Astronomy department? Wow. The list of programs that big is fairly short. Anyway, the field as a whole is not near parity yet, but it's been steadily moving in that direction. Geosciences, too, are moving in that direction. Physics as a whole is still much more dominated by men, but even there things are changing.
Maybe this is off-topic now, but I've noticed that female professors tend to be bitchy. And I'm female, so I'm not sexist here. I've noticed many female science professors are just unpleasant *******. Did they work so hard to get where they are that they turned into super *****?
Maybe this is off-topic now, but I've noticed that female professors tend to be bitchy. And I'm female, so I'm not sexist here. I've noticed many female science professors are just unpleasant *******. Did they work so hard to get where they are that they turned into super *****?
I forgot to mention the unpleasant female DPE I had for my checkride. After talking with others at the airport, this individual is known to be harder on females. My checkride was a miserable experience, and I never want to see that woman again. I don't understand why some women have to be so bitchy to other women.
You want bitchy, try talking to me during finals week. Actually, try talking to me just about any time.
This might play into another aspect of our sexually dimorphic nature. If men exhibit strong will they're often labeled things like "driven" or motivated. Women are often labeled bitchy for the same reasons.
'Cuz they're just *******?I don't understand why some women have to be so bitchy to other women.
That "dead end deal" as you put it provided me with a lucrative career.
I took an early retirement. However I still have several friends flying the line that are doing quite well.
I don't buy into the line it's a "dead end deal" especially from those who never did it. Those comments are simply "sour grapes".
Bull****. It was a dead-end deal back then too.
Guess it depends on your definition.
Definition: $180K for 10 days/month average.
Were those 8-hour/days where you could play golf after work, have dinner with the family and sleep in your own bed?
Were those 8-hour/days where you could play golf after work, have dinner with the family and sleep in your own bed?
That "dead end deal" as you put it provided me with a lucrative career.
I bet on his WEEK days off he could sit in the back of his kids classroom MULTIPLE times a month without having to ask the lord of the cubicles for permission. To have your kid look back over their shoulder and see dad sitting back there.....how huge is that. And if you can't figure out the answer then you don't really know anything about value.
Would you do it if you had to start from scratch today?
Yea, I'd do it again.