Fewer than six percent pilots at the world's leading airlines are women, while just eight of the largest 100 carriers in terms of passengers have had women bosses, according to a 2021 study by the Aviation Institute at the University of Nebraska
A May 20, 1937 photo shows US aviator Amelia Earhart on the wing of her Lockheed 10 Electra in Burbank, California. Image: Albert Bresnik / The Paragon Agency / AFP