Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The reason 90% of pilots are white males (I think it's closer to 80%) is because middle-class white male youth culture is into things like airplanes and model rockets. Same reason certain sports are dominated by certain cultural groups (hoops, hockey).
The solution is not to hire under-qualified people on a quota basis, the solution is to fix the education system.
That would go a long way. But that's FAR from the simple answer. The first sentence of the above is spot on.
Whenever I fly with somebody that's that's other than WM, their back ground seems to comply with your first paragraph. Middle, and sometimes upper class.
They had ALL THE SAME (and sometimes MORE) opportunities and doors open than the white male suburban middle-class airline pilot demographic.