There Aren’t Many Female Executives. The Airline Industry Has Even Fewer
- Industry leadership meeting in Sydney shows lack of diversity
- Gender imbalance coincides with economic, political challenges
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Global airline chiefs gathering in Sydney this week are mapping out the future of an industry that transports a big chunk of the world’s population. Good luck finding a woman among them.
It’s hard to describe the International Air Transport Association as anything other than a boys’ club, at least at the highest echelon. The board of governors of the aviation industry group, which represents 290 airlines and 82 percent of global air traffic, yesterday posed for a photo on the eve of its meeting: There was one woman among 26 airline bosses -- Christine Ourmières-Widener, CEO of Flybe Group Plc, a small regional carrier in the U.K.