Aviation Culture: a ‘Glass Sky’ for Women Pilots - Literature Review

This paper reports on a review of literature covering gender issues in aviation. It considers the impacts aviation culture women pilots. The focus was empirical studies over 25-year period (1996-2020). Two research questions underpin review; firstly, we investigated how pilots’ experiences, secondly, considered its effect as Using hermeneutic methodological framework, found that cultural attitudes towards pilots industry are biased and discriminatory. overwhelming concur hegemonic masculine dominates significantly diminishes pilots' experiences undermines their performance. contribution this to field is significant it brings together synthesizes academic from diverse range disciplines, covers civil military spans two decades. suggests reform within needed affect any real change