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Good news story
I certainly remember the media blitz in the late 70's(1978/79)......... well deserved career, needless to say.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/as-air-can ... -1.2390777
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/as-air-can ... -1.2390777
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Judy was awesome to fly with. Great head on her shoulders.
Who doesn't get the reasoning behind this being a male dominated career? I've got four daughters, and not one has a single shred intrest in what I do. Their work interests lay in health care, child care and teaching. If you think about it for a second, being an airline pilot is not that great of a career if you want to raise children and be close to family, for the most part....which most women prefer.
I don't get why humanity just can't seem to embrace the fundamental differences between our genders.
DP.
Who doesn't get the reasoning behind this being a male dominated career? I've got four daughters, and not one has a single shred intrest in what I do. Their work interests lay in health care, child care and teaching. If you think about it for a second, being an airline pilot is not that great of a career if you want to raise children and be close to family, for the most part....which most women prefer.
I don't get why humanity just can't seem to embrace the fundamental differences between our genders.
DP.
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I can imagine a child raising airline pilot and associated spouses are presented with different circumstances as compared to other professions in juggling work vs child care especially in kids younger years. Not that I can speak from experience mind you from an airline prospective. My better half was an ER/OBS nurse, then went to PEDs/NeoNate ICU, she plugged away full time between birth of our two but I was around most if not all of the time thankfully. Like you with your four girls, we all got through it by hook or crook. Had to, I suppose. My oldest is a DR and both of mine had zero interest in things aviation.
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After I took the "early" retirement package I, for the most part was, and enjoyed every effing day of it. I do wish it on everybody young and old - airline pilots included.yycflyguy wrote:Old Fella, sounds like you were a kept man!
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Good story, all the best to her!
I wish things were still this 'hard'
I wish things were still this 'hard'
Cameron says the hardest part was getting hired. She trained for two years at an aviation college and worked as a co-pilot on DC-3s in northern Canada for three years before Air Canada accepted her into training.
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The problem with female pilots, or as I like to call them, pilots, is that like all pilots, every one of them have different interests, likes, personalities and family and career goals. While I agree that if you look at Canadian society as a whole, it tends to be that women are still more of the caretakers than men, I would argue that there are many other factors at play than simple biology that accounts for such a low percentage of female pilots.Who doesn't get the reasoning behind this being a male dominated career? I've got four daughters, and not one has a single shred intrest in what I do. Their work interests lay in health care, child care and teaching. If you think about it for a second, being an airline pilot is not that great of a career if you want to raise children and be close to family, for the most part....which most women prefer.
The legal profession used to be dominated by men. Now, schools have a roughly 50/50 ratio of male to female students and our extremely well respected Chief Justice is female. However, what you are seeing is that a significant number of women leave private practice or the legal profession altogether after 3 to 10 years of practice. Though many males leave the practice of law as well, the percentage of women that leave is higher. I think that for whatever reason, it is more socially acceptable for men to commit to their job in unhealthy ways (and to a certain extent, abandon a significant amount of time with their family).
Personally, I would love to see more women in the flight deck, and a more realistic work/life balance in the working conditions in both aviation and law. Can it be done? Well, I suppose that's an argument for a later post on AvCanada.