[entropy12]

India elected a female leader of country (Prime minister) in 1966. Britain had Margaret Thatcher first female prime minister in 1979 and served 3 terms (longest of any other prime minister). Kamala is no Margaret Thatcher.

[\/\/ayne]

It’s a great place to look over the passengers and arrange a marriage with one of them for their child.

[beef]

It could well be that women in India act instead of complain.

[griffin]

Have you seen them parallel park?

[Seaplaner]

I know some women pilots and they are truly excellent.

There are many career paths available to women in the US, and whether or not to pursue an aviation career (assuming basic qualifications) is really just self-selection, not victimhood.

There exists a shortage of ATP (airline) pilots, and physically and mentally qualified would be encouraged to start building hours to see if this is for them. (Sky's the limit.)

[Chode]

they want them?

[Secret Agent Man]

Airline pilot: high stress job that you can’t make mistakes doing. And when failures occur you have to fix things right then and there. Death is a real possible outcome not handling things properly.

As a group women do not like such jobs. More so now modern women.

[libh8er]

Do they have a proportionally higher incidence of plane crashes ?

[humblegunner]

Because all the dudes died of Typhus after bathing in the holy Ganges river with rotting corpses floating by.

Except for Dinette Isuzu who survived to make crappy movies
“educating” Americans. He such a smarty guy.

[PAR35]

Traditionally, the route to being an airline pilot led through building hours in the military. Traditionally military pilots were primarily male.

[Trailerpark Badass]

“Don’t worry, scrote. There are plenty of ‘tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was ‘tarded. She’s a pilot now.”

[nwrep]

Someone who failed basic math is asking this question. That is like saying why is the average US state three times the size of the average state in India?

[ronniesgal]

i thought they killed their baby girls, so i am surprised to read this.

[PLMerite]

“How does India have twice as many women airline pilots as the US?”

Life is cheaper there (ducks)

[gundog]

Yeah...more of a Margaret Trudeau.

[Repeat Offender]

I’ll take they have a population of over 1.5 billion for $200, Alex.

[KarlInOhio]

Where do Indian pilots come from? I ask because a lot of US pilots come from the military, which for a long time has been primarily male. Those coming from private training are competing against military pilots with a decade of experience. If pilots in India come from private schools or airline training then you don’t have the military sex difference.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yup, not worried about this.

Don’t know if they’re comparing apples to apples. Didn’t read. % is more important than absolute number.

Either way, it is not because of oppression. It’s because people do what they want to do. I guess not many women here (despite the real “diversity” of races) want to fly big planes.

This is my whole problem with the entire “discrimination” argument that we NEED more X and Y and Z - it’s not discrimination on the back end, it’s on the front end. Are we supposed to force these groups into doing things? Guns to their heads that they MUST do these jobs?

Just let it be and accept it.

[NWFree]

Because so many of the men went to America to steal jobs

[familyop]

The population in India is enormous. Not much respect for life there.

;)

[Boiler Plate]

Because they have 4 times the population.