The aviation industry still remains overwhelmingly male even though women are overcoming prejudice and have made inroads into the sector in recent years.
Less than six per cent of pilots at the world's leading airlines are women as per a study conducted by the Aviation Institute and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
According to Rebecca Lutte, an associate professor at the institute, only eight of the largest 100 carriers in the world in terms of passengers carried have female bosses.