Originally Posted by
Seneca Pilot
Quite the opposite. The desire for female candidates is high but they are by and large not interested. Not just in aviation but STEM in general. I was asked to speak to my son's class about being a pilot recently. The boys were almost all on the edge of their seat and wowed by the airplane, but with the exception of one girl who's father is a private pilot I know personally, the girls in the class were talking, texting, or just bored. You can't force applicants from a pool that isn't interested.
I learned that lesson recently. One of my sons really didn't want to progress and "compete" in baseball. He liked being on the team, but he wasn't fully invested in the entire work program of doing the individual tasks every single day to stay in the batting line up.
If someone's mind is somewhere else and on something else you can't make them do it. I could put the ball on the Tee and he would rather be somewhere else.
The lesson is " you can't want it for someone else more than you want it for your own self."
If you force someone, trick some one, or have to dangle incentives in front of someone in order to accept the grind, they won't last. They won't have the stick-to-itiveness to grind it out.
in the case of girls, I am told that if a girl isn't into science by Jr. High School, they just won't gravitate into those lanes. Jr. High and High School is where most of the kids start to find what motivates them and interests them. We (or the industry), or UAL HR can't want it for them.