I remember several years ago, the Navy was insisting that they get a woman certified as a carrier based pilot. The only woman they had in the program was allowed to be recycled two or three times after failing tests. She ended up crashing and getting killed on her first solo attempt to land on a carrier. She was essentially sacrificed on the alter of political correctness and militant feminism.
I went through Flight School with the first four Women Naval Aviators. When you failed a flight lesson, you received a “Down”. Then you had a flight or two (IIRC) with a different Instructor, just to ensure that the problems was with YOU, not your instructor.
Three Downs and you were out of flight school.
One of those first four Women Naval Aviators received SEVEN downs and still got her wings!
Years later I took my son to the National Air & Space Museum at the Smithsonian. There, in the Naval Aviation Exhibit, was a display listing the names of all four ladies.
(I had better flight grades that ALL of them, but no display for me! Boo Hoo, poor me! sarc/)
She ended up crashing and getting killed on her first solo attempt to land on a carrier.
Probably not her first carrier landing, but... Kara Hultgreen crash