Female Pilots Fail to Take Off (www.Guardian.com)

"Four decades after the first female pilot started work for a commercial airline, there are still relatively few women... Of the 3,500 pilots employed by British Airways, just 200 are women, yet the airline still employs the highest proportion of female pilots of any UK airline. Globally, around 4,000 of the 130,000 airline pilots are women, according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots. Fewer still are captains – worldwide, there are around 450."
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/13/female-pilots-woman-flying-aeroplane