Originally Posted by
shackone
The reason you see smaller numbers of non-whites or females in the cockpits is really simple. Fewer numbers of these folks want to be pilots. No grand conspiracy, no evil plots, no nothing of that kind. More white males want to be pilots than do black or Hispanic males, or females.
This is in fact true. I think the applicant pool is where the problem lies, at least qualified applicant pool. Furthermore, I think it's compounded by the fact that for whet ever reason (could be racial, could be their sheer numbers as 50% of the total population), that white females get a much better shake in terms of representation and AA programs than all other true "minorities"
This AGAIN, is the elephant in the living room, and why I originally started this poll, and worded it that way I did.
I can say without any uncertainty that the average male (whether he be black, white, purple, or what ever) is far more likely to want to spend their life around airplanes, than the average female.. yet you look around the cockpit these days (especially at the better jobs on the mainline) and you see a lot more females than other minorities..
Why do you think that is shakone?