TITLE:
Flying through the Glass Ceiling
VALIDITY:
has planes, levels of gender equality anything less than phenomenal, but also gender equality not hopelessly and systematically misogynistic.
DESCRIPTION:
Notably, the vast majority of airline pilots are men.
OPTION 1 -- CAPITALIST NATIONS
"It's not that women aren't allowed to be pilots, rather there's a global workplace bias where it remain a perceived masculine role," suggests female pilot @@randomfemalename@@. "I'd suggest you can address the cultural expectations with more visibility of role models. Maybe incentivise airlines who depict female pilots on their TV adverts, subsidise media that normalise female pilots, pay female pilots to give talks at girl's schools. Finally, you could encourage airlines to have equality policies, around gender awareness, and treating female pilots the same as male pilots. Hopefully, mine can be the last generation where we're outnumbered ten-to-one."
OUTCOME:
Leonardo DiCaprio movies about playboy aviators are being rebooted with gender-swapped protagonists
OPTION 2
"Look, little lady wants to fly a big jumbo, that's fine with us," schmoozes middle-aged male pilot @@randommalename@@, twirling his moustache. "A lot of us became pilots because of the stewardesses, you know, and more pretty faces in the air doesn't worry us boys at all. But it isn't the government's job to distort reality with inaccurate depictions of this noble calling, and if most of us guys are guys, well, who cares? Instead, why not channel that investment towards more pilot training in general, with equal opportunity for anyone who wants to become a pilot, male or female, or miscellaneous. Hell, we're open minded chaps up here in the clouds."
OUTCOME:
95% of airline pilots think high heels and short skirts should be part of a stewardess' uniform
OPTION 3
"I think my buddy here is being excessively politically correct," laughs co-pilot @@randommalename@@, whose eyes haven't left the first speaker yet, but who has yet to notice her face. "Look, being a pilot is one of the last bastions of old-fashioned manliness. No-one wants to see a female builder, or a female taxi driver, or a female pilot. Hell, I'm kind of sick of seeing female dentists, doctors and lawyers all over the place. We need schools to be teaching about gender, for sure, but we need them teaching that there's man jobs and woman jobs, and crossing that boundary is just plain weird. Am I right?"
OUTCOME:
the only way an ambitious woman can be upwardly mobile is by nabbing a rich man