Women representing global and European transport unions are attending this week’s ICAO Global Aviation Gender Summit 2023 in Madrid, Spain, to ensure the voices of women aviation workers from around the world are heard loud and clear and to press for changes that address the systemic challenges that have plagued the industry since its formation. […]
Transport workers together for a gender equal new normal The transport industry is highly gendered, and whilst all transport workers are being severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be specific and additional impacts for women transport workers. As the International Labour Organization (ILO) has recognised, the challenges arising out of this crisis have […]
On a special podcast to mark International Women’s Day, professor Tessa Wright (left) is interviewed by Jodi Evans To mark International Women’s Day 2020, the ITF has produced a podcast looking at the persistent problem of gender segregation in the transport industry. Jodi Evans, ITF women transport workers and gender equality officer, talks with professor […]
By Stephen Rice The Problem The aviation industry faces a worldwide shortage of qualified pilots. Numerous agencies cite the need to hire thousands of new pilots over the next two decades. In fact, some air carriers are already reducing or canceling flight schedules as a result of these pilot shortages. Given this need to hire […]
The Economist, explains how many airlines have reverted to backward practices that objectify women cabin crew. Unions have long fought, so that airlines, travellers and the general public value the major health and safety role that cabin crew workers play and this article sites practices that are alarming on grounds of worker rights and could pose […]
In this exclusive excerpt from her memoir My Life on the Road, the writer and feminist activist reveals the harassment and discrimination women crew members faced in the ’60s and ’70s. When I first began flying a lot in the early 1970s, planes meant only mindlessness, escape from phones, maybe a movie, and most of […]
