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H= 9 * (SQRT P)
Lets be clear on this. United continued this practice of hiring abnormally high numbers of woman and minorities right up until they quit hiring in 2001. To be fair, interns and kids with mom or dad working there also got special treatment. That left the white male pilot on his own. The white male pilot had to have many thousands of hours more flying time and PIC before he could even think about an interview. That is a fact and it is indisputable if you look only at the facts.
Not disagreeing with you... they've always (as well as UPS and CAL) been keen to hire a disproportionate number of women, thus the 10:1 that I am being told was their goal (I got this from a friend at UAL). The realities of qualified women vs in men in the job market don't yield a 10:1, certainly not based on my years of flying all over the US and now the world and seeing how many more men there are in the job market.
.. I was just saying that they were even worse for a while in the late 80's thru early 90's when they were picking up women with literally a commercial multi-engine in a market where there were ATP's with Type Ratings looking for work. They've since "calmed" down is all.