A secret well hidden in aerospace is the old white men are the ones who do the actual real engineering work. At least that’s been my experience doing contract work and consulting. The contractors are all about my age with the same experience who go in and correct all the mistakes from the younger ‘engineers’ and do the specialized design and engineering (FEA, GVT, Flutter, etc.).
For the companies that don’t like “boring old white men” how’d that work for the Titanic Sub??? DEI gets you to DIE quick when it matters.
It’s like that in a lot of fields