Hey Lauren,
Adam did a great job covering your questions. From a female perspective, I’d say I haven’t experienced any blatant discrimination. Does that mean I’m always treated as an equal? Absolutely not. I noticed it the most in training. Female pilots constantly have to prove they deserve to be there. It’s no mystery that with all things being equal, a woman, as a minority, has a greater chance at being hired than the male counterpart. That creates a stigma from the second we walk in to the training environment. Is she here because she hits a quota, or because she’s good and deserves to be here? If you have a bad sim session, it’s because you’re a girl… not because you’re in training and learning like your other male classmates. You’ll learn very quickly, the way to make it in this industry is being on top of your game all the time. You have to prove you belong by being at the top of your class. Only then will you be respected and treated like, “one of the guys”.
-Hannah
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