Pilot wanted: That's why easyJet wants more women in the cockpits
The likelihood that a pilot flies us to the Maldives, is negligible: Only four percent of all commercial pilots worldwide are women.
The low-cost carrier easyJet does not look much better: The group currently employs a good five percent of female drivers. However, only one in three easyJet pilots has the status of captain? According to Adam Riese, less than 2 percent of all easyJet pilots are captains.
50 percent gender pay gap - easyJet praised improvement
The new CEO of the British airline Johan Lundgren wants to quickly change this situation, as he announced now: In 2020, the hiring rate of female pilots should be 20 percent.
If the CEO held the current course, that might work: last year, easyJet hired 49 pilots and 320 pilots? the female quota for new hires was already 13 percent.
For Lundgren, the low female quota in the cockpits probably poses a problem, above all because it contributes to the fact that easyJet is repeatedly criticized for a monstrous gender pay gap.
No wonder: the jobs as flight attendants, in which, as we know, above-average number of women are employed (who would have thought that
