A good friend sent me the link to this blog posted by The Smithsonian.
I’ve long known that the percentage of female pilots who are major-league commercial airline pilots is microscopic. One-percent or even less, worldwide. Why? There is a lot of misinformation out there, as the blog says. I encounter girls and women who tell me they aren’t going to pursue or didn’t pursue a career flying planes because they they weren’t good in math. I don’t know why that myth persists. Math has little to do with flying. As long as you’ve got ten fingers, you’re good to go. 🙂 If I had to sum up the skills required it’d be good spatial awareness in three dimensions, and a can-do kind of confidence that propelled you to pursue the dream of becoming a pilot in the first place. Not math.
