Originally Posted by
Sputnik
I don't actually understand the point of your numbers....not being argumentative. What were the boundary conditions of the problem you posed to the PhD dude? I'm not actually sure what you asked him. The fact that it was exactly 20%, or the fact that 20% is high?
At any rate, walking around campus at Delta re-affirms what a few others said above, this is primarily a white male profession. I'm not assigning a value judgement to that fact, but the assertion that you have to be a woman or minority to get hired is patently false.
Someone mentioned age--youngest in my class was a 29 year old RJ guy, oldest was a 54 year old military and RJ. Irrelevant fact, both were white guys.
The chief pilot at the time said "I'm not doing what United did. We're not target hiring." Looking at class pictures and it was immediately obvious that he was lying. So a called a PhD in mathematics candidate and gave *her* the actual hiring statistics of male/female, class by class, for the first 996 new hires. Why use women as the fact checker? Because it's pretty obvious when looking at pictures, or names, who's a women. Names aren't 100% so the actual female new hire count might have been slightly higher than 156/996.
Overall female pilot population pool was estimated to be 5% back then. Now it's 6%.
Not trying to pick on female pilots. Family and friends in that group. Just pointing out B.S. statements that the facts don't support.
It's overwhelming a white male profession. Article said 86%. No one is disputing that.