Why boosting women pilots will be a ‘decades-long’ project
Women make up just one in nine new pilots graduating each year, meaning the push to get gender balance for one of the aviation industry’s highest-paid roles, and bring down the sector’s high pay gaps, will be a “decades-long” project.
Data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency last week revealed that Australia’s biggest airlines have gender pay gaps as high as 53.5 per cent, prompting promises from the biggest players to improve their pipeline of female talent in the male-dominated pilot profession.
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