It gets worse
Next time you board a commercial plane and the lady pilot is grinning at you as you enter from the jetway make sure it ain’t the reaper staring back
Their crash rate is 400% higher than male pilots.
My first commercial female pilot...
I was flying Delta out of Montgomery, AL about 15 years ago. The USAF Thunderbirds had put on a show the previous day and had been hangared overnight at the airport, which was an ANG base, rather than Maxwell AFB.
Our DC-9 taxied to the end of the runway immediately behind their F-16s. The pilot came on the intercom and advised us who we were following and that passengers on the right side of the plane would get to see them take off.
She continued a running commentary about the Thunderbirds and flight show aerobatics until the last T-bird started rolling...
Then, she shoved the throttles forward and virtually sprinted onto the runway, made an aggressive pivot and shoved the throttles to the wall...announcing that, after seeing the USAF Thunderbirds take off, we would be launched into the air ourselves by a past member of the United States Marine Corps Flying Leathernecks!
And away we went...