Women “can” be great pilots, but the problem is when you promote someone simply because they are a woman and not a great woman pilot.
DEI not only results in accidents it puts into question every capable woman or minority credentials.
Are they really capable? or were they simply promoted because they are a woman or a minority?
Jordan Peterson often discusses the math of this. Yes, overall, women are comparable with men in standard IQ, computational ability, logical problem solving etc... but are very different in temperament, interests and of course, physical strength.
He points out that in the most gender-equal societies (like Nordic countries) with complete freedom of career choice - women actually choose traditionally "feminine" fields like nursing and teaching (and men go into construction, engineering, etc..) at even higher rates than other western countries like the USA, Canada.
If a company or agency has a quota to get to 50% female engineers, police, pilots or whatever, but women in these fields are only 10% or 15% of the applicant pool, to meet the quota, it logically means you must take even the worst-performing females, while rejecting highly qualified men.
My dear friend was a female pilot. She came from a working class family in Watertown, NY, grew up on skis. In 1969 she loaded up an old car and took off for Aspen wanting to be a pilot. She had little money but planned on being a ski instructor and waitress until she could take lessons. She worked her way up to a 737 rating, mostly flying private jets and King Airs. Thousands of hours and flew for some major, well known people. The most dedicated, professional and driven person I have ever known. She is retired now but was a favorite pilot for a very well known billionaire in the news, rumored to be gay. Whenever he flew west to ski, he asked her to be the pilot so they could ski together. I asked her for years about his sexuality and would always say, “what I know about my clients never leaves my mouth”. We talked a while back, being long retired, and I said, ok what about him, is he gay, she said, “no way”. I asked did you sleep with him, (she was great looking) she answered , “I was way too old for him”. She was in her thirties when she started piloting for him. LOL
Likewise, for example, if they finally started to address the male nursing imbalance (that no one is saying should be corrected because guys are under-represented), I wouldn’t want a male nurse that wasn’t trained properly just because the mucky-mucks just wanted to put male nurses on the floor and be “visible”.