alt Hacker News// We later learned that sadly only 6% of Southwest pilots are women,
I am not sure that's a "sadly". I used to fly a lot and talk to flight crews. Aviation is a ton of crazy schedules and nights away from home (I assume this is well known)
From a family perspective it's bad enough if dads missing from the house for days at a time, much more catastrophic if mom's not around like that.
(A child's relationship with mom vs. dad is very different. Kids need their mom in a very different way that we can't just paper over)
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HappyJoy • yesterday at 10:14 PM
Fair - how does that account for the predominantly female FA population?
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arrrg • today at 5:54 AM
What evidence is this claim based on?
ani_k47 • yesterday at 10:10 PM
forgive me if I am wrong, but this comment sounds like we are trying to build a narrative. I might be wrong. No offense.
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> From a family perspective it's bad enough if dads missing from the house for days at a time, much more catastrophic if mom's not around like that.
Ah, what is so special that women bring that men can't? Neither women or men are fundamental to raising a child, parents are. Gay couples raise healthy, well-adjusted children all the time without one or the other gender as a parent.
Positioning a family as having women-at-home as a requirement just sounds like old-school misogyny to me. (And also de-valuing the capability of men.) Men are perfectly capable of filling this domestic role as well.