I’ve been working on an essay about factors that keep women from getting pilot’s licenses, and how there is a seeming age group bimodality
Don't know whether finding this confirmation in the FAA statistics counts as triumph (I was right!) or a gut punch:pic.twitter.com/O1N5LHvVw9
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This came up after I met several women who started training in their 20s and quit to support families, then returned in their 50s/60s
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An unaccountable number of these are married to husbands who maintained their ratings or added new ones in that same timeframe.
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Data for all active private pilots, women, and men:pic.twitter.com/uKZlQaUgwm
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Whoops, I accidentally some of the data in that screenshot. This is a better table:pic.twitter.com/kD2zKtzUwc
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Looks like childrearing years on first glance?
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childrearing disproportionately to women yes, also prevalence in careers that pay well enough, knowing other pilots who'd recruit
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What are the same stats for boys/men?
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there is a jump-up at retirement age, no distinct bimodality:pic.twitter.com/eHch3eCNor
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Pretty staggering just to see the sheer numbers. I was hoping we'd at least be in the 30-40% range vs < 10% of all
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The 53 Grannies First Airborne is ready to re-enact the third act of Mad Max Fury Road
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