Training and Workforce
Building a Diverse Workforce—the Seeds of Change
Aviation groups are trying to break through diversity walls
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Aviation has long ranked among the bottom of industries in terms of diversity. Over the past several decades, several groups have formed to help reverse this course, but the numbers have remained stubbornly lopsided.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women represented just 9.2 percent of the total employed pilots and flight engineers in 2022. 2.6 percent were Black, 1.6 percent were Asian, and 9.7 percent were Hispanic or Latino.

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