The 29th annual Women in
Aviation International Conference kicks off today at the Reno-Sparks Convention
Center in Reno, Nevada, inspiring women to seek careers in aviation.
Each year, the conference
provides women and men a place to meet with potential employers and to learn
more about aviation careers. Inspirational speakers, exhibits, workshops,
on-site interviews and more are offered. A long list of scholarships, totaling
tens of thousands of dollars, will be handed out during the next few days to
deserving women who need a boost in their quest to advance their careers.
The event comes on the heels of the Institute
of Women of Aviation Worldwide (iWOAW) Week, which broke records this year with
61,000 women participating, an increase of 15 percent over last year. The
organization encourages aviation professionals around the world to organize
events during this week to inspire women to enter aviation-related jobs. From
March 5 through 11, 12,408 women took their first flights as part of iWOAW’s
program, Fly it Forward, which arranged 179 organizers in 33 countries to take
women and girls flying.
While progress is being made, there is still a
long way to go to normalize the percentage of women pilots. Currently, only
6.33 percent of the commercial pilot population comprises women, a number that
has increased from 4.7 percent about a decade ago.
(Evangle Luo of TTFLY shared with you)
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