In college I read an article that claimed that ever since the 1920's there has only been around 5% of pilots that were women. In the late 1980's UAL made a huge effort to hire more female pilots however they still only managed to reach 5.5%. The problem was that they discovered that by 28 most women aviators quit to have a family. The solution was to step out of the traditional hiring process and strive to hire younger women at nearly any experience level since they knew that they were going to loose them anyway and needed to increase their percentages.

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