Why do so few women become airline pilots? Less than one in 20 pilots is female and the proportion is even smaller when it comes to captains, with just a few hundred in the entire world.
With the industry badly in need of flightcrew, encouraging more women to train - and remain - as pilots would seem to be not just an equality issue but one of straightforward commercial sense.
To discuss the barriers to women opting for a career in the cockpit, what can be done about it, and the efforts being made in parts of the aviation sector to redress the gender balance, we have brought together two experts in the field. Capt Marnie Munns is a senior captain with EasyJet and the face of the airline's Amy Johnson Flying Initiative, a campaign to bring the percentage of women pilots flying for EasyJet to 20% by 2020. Capt Leo Nugent is a training pilot but also a senior official with the British Airline Pilots Association, which believes airlines could do more to prevent women leaving the profession by creating more flexible working patterns.
FlightGlobal's Murdo Morrison chairs the panel discussion.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
