Once you start down the correct path it’s easier. Most of my cadet senior NCOs are female and are high achievers who between them have gold wings, gold D of E, gold music, JL, LLC etc. if you are fortunate enough to get to that point then the encouragement etc is there and everyone signs up to everything 
I heard they were released to Regions but suspect they stopped there. I don’t understand why they can’t be shared wider than that so we know what actions are being taken from it.
i suspect the answers are at Region for the Aviation officers to consider and realise it is too hard to implement from their remote position and be…forgotten
Fully disagree with this statement. If you look to more egalitarian countries where theres more free choice you tend to find these splits increase not decrease. This trend shows there is infact gender based priorities to what jobs people want to do otherwise it would move in the opposite direction.
Its a shame that such male roles pay more however the market sets the price. Men tend to prefer things and women tend to prefer people oriented jobs.
Unfortunately a focus on thigs often to the detriment of people is what produces technological advancements and the proclivity towards higher cost and thus higher pay
So I can check I’ve not misunderstood you, you’re saying that the more liberal the country in terms of policies surrounding childcare, promotion of female eduction etc, the less women there are doing the traditionally ‘male’ roles?
By that logic the most impressive countries for female engagement stats across the workplace would be those like Saudi Arabia. I’m having a hard time following this particular line of thinking if I’m honest.
The idea that women are engineered to just want to sit at home with the kids and couldn’t possibly want to pursue a career in tech, finance etc. is just laughably from the 1950s. Very glad we’re moving on from that.
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Bizarrely, this does seem to be the case.
“Stoet and Geary posit that this is because the countries that empower women also empower them, indirectly, to pick whatever career they’d enjoy most and be best at.”
This is from an article found here from The Atlantic.
This article doesn’t mention (that I could see) the percentage who continue into these professions. This is just graduates
Can only speak from my personal experience, however good or bad that is. But i can see this in the service. There is a huge disparity to which trades women go to in the service. There are very few women on my squadron. Yet our med centre and admin on unit are disproportionately female. We have ZERO female aircrew on my squadron, both pilots and WSOps.
On the home front, my wife joined an airline as cabin crew whilst I went engineering in the services.
Edit (after a telling off, as I completely forgot over 50% of her working career… following a house move she then moved into Flight Ops and planning, at the time it was pretty heavily male dominated. Lots of maths, fuel planning etc, a very STEM heavy role. Whilst she had interest in the role, she didn’t actually enjoy it. And despite the, as put above, money that comes with working these fields, she very enthusiastically threw the towel in after maternity leave.
And now we have had our sprog, she’s taken great pleasure in staying at home and becoming a home maker. She’s also had severe flak from people close to us (my dad for one) who subscribe to the idea she should be out working, because it keeps women down to be relegated to the home. But she wouldn’t swap it for anything.
I’m not proposing anything here. This is just personal experience and some data that can be found, whether good or bad.
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with women not wanting to go into STEM. But they should be afforded every opportunity and encouragement if that’s what they want to do.
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