has hijacked this thread to the point of talking about men fly better airplanes than women.....what a knucklehead! FMS, you should go to confession right now and ask for forgiveness.....
In my experience, both as an airline pilot and a flight instructor, women in the cockpit are generally one extreme or the other. If you rate a pilot based on flying skill, decision making, and communication, they're either the best pilot you've ever seen, or the worst ever. Since the really bad ones tend to weed themselves out by the time you get to the airline level, you see few really bad ones.
Men on the other hand tend to be always mediocre. You see some good ones and some not so good ones, but it's rare to see an extreme.
I think this in part is because women are better at multitasking and communicating than men. And since the evolutionary traits of sexual dimorphism are never absolute, you often find women with skills men traditionally excel at, as well as men with skills women traditionally excel at. A woman who possesses the traditionally male talent of mechanical aptitude, coupled with her other natural talents has everything a pilot needs to be successful.
Men on the other hand tend to have excellent mechanical ability, but lack multitasking and communication skills. This is what makes them mediocre overall, with the exception, of course, of the rare male who has the gift of communication and multitasking. Oh and EMPATHY (are you listening FMS-SPEED and REZ)?
All of you men advising these women on how to balance their careers and family lives are laughable, and demonstrate a clear lack of it. You are defining the "traditional" roles of men and women as though sexual dimorphism is absolute. It is not.
This is a constant struggle for women (the balance of career vs. family) because they are defined much more by their traditional role in society than men are. So when a woman finds herself with mechanical skill and works her way into a male profession, she's belittled, ridiculed, and told she's only there to fill a quota. Then, when she one day gets pregnant, she's often pushed to the fringe and made to feel like a bad person for not wanting to give the career up because of something happening to her that she can't control, may not have planned for, may not even like, and is irreversible. No man can appreciate that because there is nothing we face that even comes close.
Also, if a man decides to quit work and raise the kids it's a
choice. Men can leave the situation. Women cannot because they are physically and emotionally bound. When it comes to pregnancy, childbirth, and child raising, the women are stuck with the task whether they like it or not, because they are the ones with it inside of them, and dependent on them. They also have a bond with the child that no man can ever understand, which keeps them from leaving it after its born. So like it or not, she often finds herself sacrificing her career for her family.
So try to show a little empathy to women like Megadeth, and just listen to them, rather than offer unsolicited advice. That's another difference between men and women that most men don't handle well. Also one that breeds resentment between the sexes... as seen in this thread.
