#13 #3 RAND Study of USAF female and black pilots' washout rate indicated they simply "lack ability" -- and, understandably, also lack confidence. From report linked above, p.45:
...both female groups themselves and instructors discussed a lack of confidence among female students, especially compared with men. For example, a female instructor opined that female students lacked the confidence of their male counterparts:
"The confidence on the whole is not as high throughout the women as it is with the guys. I don’t know how to fix that after teaching for four years. A guy can have a bad ride and still tell himself and his friends that he’s awesome. A girl can have a good ride and tell herself and her friends that she’s the worst. I don’t know a way to fix that other than to just be aware of it."
As with instructors, female students also suggested that they might have a harder time than their male counterparts in shaking off criticism. For example, one female student pilot explained that male student pilots “can move on much faster because they don’t think about things all the time like we do.” Another female student stated, “I think the hardest thing for me was learning to forgive myself.”
Finally, instructors often perceived that female students lacked ability. Several instructors said that female students seemed to be poorer performers or that they had heard other instructors say that, particularly in terms of flying performance (as opposed to academics, general knowledge, or knowledge of instruments).
A white male instructor, responsible for splitting classes as they entered the next training phase, recalled as he “split up classes and tr[ied] to balance gender and minorities,” “There is a perception that females perform at a lower level. I’m often asked by flight-room IPs how many girls I am sending them.” |
[RT] United Airlines has been skewered on social media after announcing that it hopes to recruit more ’diverse’ pilots, prompting many to accuse the company of abandoning merit-based hiring practices to appeal to the woke mob.