AppId is over the quota
The young adults of this day and age will find it hard to relate with the pride and joy of women from previous generations have every time they see a woman pilot, aircraft engineer or air traffic controller. For many years, these jobs have been an exclusive male affair. Even to this day we have a majority of pilots being men. Up until recent times, there seemed to be an unwritten rule that put men in the pilot's seat and women were automatically give flight attendant roles.
Ever since 1798, when the world watched as the first female pilot took to the skies, there have been enormous challenges that women have had to deal with in the field of piloting. The first black female pilot, Bessie Coleman had to move from the US to France, where she had to learn French, adjust to living abroad, earn her pilot license in a male dominated environment only to go back home and be denied permission to even participate in air shows! It has not been easy but the ladies have pushed on and today we have more lady pilots than anyone would have imagined twenty or fifteen years back.
Even though significant advances have been made as regards women in the aviation industry, there is still a lot of catching up to do. In the United States, which happens to be among the countries with the highest number of female pilots in the world, women pilots are less than 10% of licensed pilots. Considering this as one of the leading countries as far as enrollment of women pilots is concerned shows that there is still a lot more to be done in order to achieve parity between men and women in piloting.
Today there are plenty of organizations for women who are working in the aviation industry. They are constantly working to encourage young women and girls to take up piloting, aircraft engineering and other careers in the aviation industry. There are also lots of resources that women can now access through the Internet and other avenues, to help them learn more about the aviation industry.
With less than 500 female airline captains in the whole world, there are lots of opportunities for ladies who want to go into aviation. Those already in the industry point to some of the challenges that have kept women away from the cockpit as high stress levels, extended durations away from home and finances required for training. Women with young families have found careers in aviation quite challenging, as the work hours and frequent travel tend to be quite incompatible with mothering young children.
However, there is no reason as to why a woman cannot purse her dream of becoming a pilot if she really wants to do so. Many countries around the world now have ladies flying in their military aircraft and they are doing a great job. Israel happens to be one of the countries, which has a large number of lady pilots in their air force. A lot has been achieved but there is still room for more gains to be made in bringing more ladies into aviation as pilots and in other areas of aviation.
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