Race and gender in hiring practices.
#141
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2019
Posts: 133
If you understand 'Dog's post, there's nothing more to explain.
Am curious though, your 6-9% is from current hiring trends? Source?
IIRC, I think I saw on here women hold approx 5% of ATP certificates. I might be off on that number... but if accurate, 5% of the hiring pool is getting 9% of the new hire positions, wouldn't you agree women are over represented as new hires?
Even if true, men aren't threatened by that because there's really so few women applying in comparison. However, to say they don't have an advantage is false.
Am curious though, your 6-9% is from current hiring trends? Source?
IIRC, I think I saw on here women hold approx 5% of ATP certificates. I might be off on that number... but if accurate, 5% of the hiring pool is getting 9% of the new hire positions, wouldn't you agree women are over represented as new hires?
Even if true, men aren't threatened by that because there's really so few women applying in comparison. However, to say they don't have an advantage is false.
Even looking at the few regionals with “high” percentages of women as a the “new” baseline for all of these women taking men’s jobs (a whopping 6-7%!) or statistics from the US Navy (a whole 7%!) and hiring that’s publicly available from, say, Delta in 2016 (9%!), and projections that average about 400/year for each of the big 3 (I have seen these projections and some will hire more like AA, and some less, like United) to get from 7%!to that 9%, you are concerned about.... 20-30 women getting all of this “favoritism.”
There’s far likely to be someone’s son getting the treatment you’re unhappy about.
As the other poster said, make yourself stand out and worry about the 1000+ dudes per year getting these jobs, not the small percentage of women trying to succeed in a world where they still have to earn the job up against a group of people who think they are being shown favoritism, regardless of their level of qualification.
It’s been tiresome to watch a friend who is a regional captain with a doctorate struggle for years and finally get hired, and some dude with less experience no bachelors cries foul. True story.
#142
So if they really HAVE achieved parity now, then yes, they have been way disproportionately successful in the last two decades if they have ivercome the legacy of underrepresentation.
The argument that because of the small numbers involved, this is not important, is somewhat fallacious. Rates are rates, and that’s what demographics are based upon.
#143
New Hire
Joined APC: Feb 2019
Position: Contract Pilot
Posts: 5
I'm surprised no one ever mentions the sacrifices women make to their careers when deciding to have kids. I personally took 4 years off from flying because I felt it was important to be home for the first year and wanted to breastfeed. If anyone thinks it is possible to fly and breastfeed let me tell you a story about a three hour flight and a bumpy landing...and then really didn't feel I could do the regional gig until they were both pretty self sufficient. My husband is a carpenter and frequently works a long drive from home. So not that I have had a bad career or life, just that I have a different start. I have a ton of hours and am working to finish my degree but would also like to think that I have specific multitasking skills and an organizational black belt that are traits valuable in an airline pilot. I think if you want someone who knows what hard work is then any working mom is a good candidate!
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