Originally Posted by
SonicCarhop
Your correction is correct...with the caveat being that statistically speaking there is a larger pool of women/minorities out there that would benefit from reduced barriers to entry simply based on the fact that there are far fewer women/minorities who are pilots currently.
Women and minorities do have reduced barriers to entry, As evidenced in the title of this thread.
Many of us had barriers that we had to overcome. My ‘white privilege’ involved a GED and a bus ticket from a rough neighborhood to boot camp. College and flight training via G.I. Bill. Same route any one of my ‘underprivileged’ minority enlisted brothers and sisters could have pursued, but chose not to.
Sat on flight decks for decades talking to minorities/females, many of which came from Upper middle class upbringings, attended /recruited to prestigious schools, flight schools and service academies, only to then get invitations to preferential hiring seminars and receive scholarships via OBAP, WIA, 99s, etc, and proceed straight to the front of the hiring line at every major airline that competed for their “representation”.
To say that women and minorities face barriers to entry, is simply no longer true. If anything, it’s quite the opposite.