{"id":2272,"date":"2018-09-05T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2018-09-10T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:42:44","slug":"india-soars-above-global-average-in-hiring-female-airline-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2018\/09\/india-soars-above-global-average-in-hiring-female-airline-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"India soars above global average in hiring female airline pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in the world at 12 percent, despite the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s patriarchal society, which typically frowns on women in such jobs.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was difficult,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Shweta Singh, a senior trainer at Jet Airways Ltd on temporary assignment to India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aviation regulator as deputy chief flight operations inspector, said, recalling her early days of being a pilot. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was a male-dominated area and not easy to break into.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nBut society is changing, said Singh.<br \/>\nThe percentage of female pilots in India is twice as high as in most Western countries, including the United States and Australia. Globally, less than 5 percent of pilots are women, according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots.<br \/>\nDemand for pilots globally is surging. Planemaker Boeing Co estimates a need for 790,000 new pilots globally over the next 20 years, double the current workforce, as air travel rises.<br \/>\nIndia is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastest-growing aviation market, with domestic capacity growing 22 percent in the first half of the year, so airlines there are under particular pressure.<br \/>\nRecruiting more women is an obvious way to help solve the pilot shortage, but social constraints have worked against that, said Maria Bucur, a professor of history and gender studies at Indiana University.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The training and stressful work needed to become and work as a pilot require choices of women that go against most of the gendered expectations our society has of them at that age: to have babies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<br \/>\n05\/09\/18 Aditi Shah\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-pilots-women-analysis\/india-soars-above-global-average-in-hiring-female-airline-pilots-idUSKCN1LL0OC\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in the world at 12 percent, despite the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilot-training","category-pilots","category-pilot-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}