I keep hearing about the preferential hiring of females and minorities. Personally, as a female, I’ve not experienced it. Regardless of my chromosomes, I worked my ass off and passed my checkrides. I have a college degree. I was a damn good CFI and I studied for my airline interviews. I dressed professionally and interviewed well. I have only applied to the regionals and felt like I was as competitive as a CFI candidate could get. Maybe the majors are different? I guess I don’t understand at what point being a woman is going to be that much of an advantage. Honestly, if they are handing out jobs at the majors based on being female, I’m not going to say no. “You want to hand me a job for something completely out of my control? Ok.” It just seems like the female/minority thing is such a rumor to me. Does anyone have any hard facts that being female or a minority really boosts the resume that much?