Originally Posted by
Sputnik
Can you back that up with anything resembling proof?
I think if you happen to get a chance to walk through any pilot lounge, or the training center--you will be underwhelmed at the number of non-white non-male pilots.
What sort of proof do you need?
Do you think the companies will provide the data if asked? Since they won't guys are just left with looking around, and listening, when they hear the backgrounds of new hires.
At WAI a company specifically said they hired 12% women OTS in the previous year. That's hard to attribute to randomness when that hiring pool was reported to be 6%.
In the previous hiring at AA the first 996 new hires had at least 15.7% women. The first 200 was exactly 20%. The company insisted they weren't target hiring. Asked a PhD candidate in mathematics what the odds were of that happening - "that's impossible." Come on, give me a number. It was either 1.0(-21) or 1.0(-23). Sorry, brain fade after 15 years so I forget if it was 0.0000000000000000000001 or 0.000000000000000000000001.
When the numbers don't match the odds/percentages it's not 'random'.