Thanks the largest gift in Texas Woman’s University, a generous gift of $15 million from the Doswell Foundation, the school will be able to fund its aviation program.
ICAO’s latest global survey on the status of licensed aviation personnel by gender reveals that the participation of women holding positions as pilots, air traffic controllers, and maintenance technicians has increased on an overall basis from 4.5% globally in 2016, to 4.9% in 2021.
While the total number of women pilots has increased over the past six decades, women flight instructors, commercial pilots and air transport pilots have increased at a rate of 1% per decade. One. Percent. Per decade.