Skywise wrote:
Ok, time for a show of hands. Any ladies reading this group
please speak up and vote whether you feel aviation is
discrimanatory to women.

Since it's the ladies that seem to be the subject of this
debate, let's hear what THEY have to say.

OK - as one of the resident females...and lady, I'll speak up. (Which
I already did at the original post, but let's continue the
discussion)

Yes, aviation is discriminatory. As is most of the hard sciences.
My undergrad degree is math. Anytime anyone heard that, they asked
at what grade school I was going to teach. And I have the math
degree because after 3.5 years in EE, I was bored. And had already
been accepted to grad school in engineering. And business for an
MBA, but I went with the engineering school. My PhD is a joint
Math and Computer Science. Most of my professional career has
been in aerospace. From a fashion POV, the US Navy wins all the time.

I've been told to change majors to business or education or sociology
far too many times. I laugh. College students that I advise have
been told by other faculty to quit, that they shouldn't be there, or
they should drop out until they have the baby (one was pregnant
at the time).

I fly. I own an airplane. I've worked as a consultant to ATC, so I've
spent a fair amount of time in towers.

What the underlying issue becomes is not "political correctness" but
one of manners and respect and maturity.