Again back to the job as your identity.

Women aviation, some statistics

I just returned  yesterday from Dallas, for recurrent training at Southwest Airlines.  In a class of about 25 people there were 24 middle aged white guys, and one African American.  Women have been pioneers in aviation since its inception. Although the first women received her commercial certificate in the 1930s, US airlines, like other professions effectively excluded women as pilots until about fifty years ago.  Since then, these same companies have been aggressively trying to diversify their pilot groups.  It was a running joke that you had to be a woman to get hired by United in the 1980s.  In fact, for the last several decades, hiring decisions have been remarkably favorable for women.  In other words, flight hours and experience requirements for men(read white men) were significantly higher than those required for women to be employed. Initially, women generally faced a somewhat hostile work environment with their peers in the 70s and 80s, but that has been gone for many years.(Yes there are still some dinosaurs in the system) Despite a tradition in the profession, corporations desperately  trying to recruit(not a recent trend) a fairly lucrative pay scale, social standing and as of right now an extremely bright future, women only make up some 4% of the Airline Transport certificates in the US.  Neither of my two oldest daughters had any desire to take up the profession.  My eleven year old shows a similar disinterest.  In light of the discussion about nature vs societal norms, what accounts for this?  Is this even a problem?