That, and most of these jobs mentioned are usually working under or as assistants to people in careers that are predominantly male careers...

Example: look at any accounting firm. The majority of receptionists, assistants, lower-level accountants may be women, but look at the high-paying jobs like CPAs and partners, the vast majority of those are men.

I see a lot of outrage over women and minority hiring preferences, that is supposedly going on currently at the majors. If you look at the Delta and United hiring stats that ALPA publishes, their classes are about 7% female. The regional pilot population is about 6% female. 1% difference isn't usually considered to be statistically significant.

Now what about legacy hires (children of major airline pilots, checkairman, etc). Those people seem to have a huge leg up over anyone, and people rarely complain about that. It seems like a lot of low-time d*bags and d*p$h*ts that have moved up from my airline (the ones captains hate flying with, who have an entitled attitude and poor work ethic) have one thing in common: daddy or uncle or close family friend is someone of influence at Delta, United, AA, etc. It seems to me being born with a good connection at the airlines helps 10x more than being born female or a minority when it comes to getting on at a major airline.

This is not the case at Delta. Even CP's can't don't have any extra pull with Pilot Selection. Otherwise I agree, "legacy" admissions at universities or "legacy" hirings at companies are as bad as affirmative action.

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i currently have 5 LORs at DELTA including a past system CP.... nada....

There's a woman I know that started flying in 2011...I mean started taking lessons who is now at Delta. No regionals. No nothing. Just a tremendous amount of girl power!:rolleyes:

It's funny how that happens

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Better lucky than good.....

You nailed it...

Hercdriver130, DL in the past was very much a buddy system. If you were navy or airforce, you had a good shot. Now you have 5 internal recs, good for you. I have none! Don't know anyone there. Yes, got my app in, for few years now. No word. I guess over 8000 hours, almost half of that on 3 and 4 engined heavy jets, all over the world. I guess I am still not good enough.
Fedex is the same. You need to know 3 people who have flown with you (and apparently flying formation in F18 or F16's count as that). Guess what, I don't know anyone there. So I cannot even apply, yet I was good enough to fly their stuff when they needed extra help.