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Running Head : Women (US Aviation

Women in the History of Aviation in the United States

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The venture of women into aviation was a long and difficult process Although female pilots such as Amelia Earhart , Ruth Nichols and Jacqueline Cochran managed to make their respective mark in the aforementioned field , it was the stewardess who marketed the aviation industry as a lucrative and safe endeavor for women . In the process aviation continued to exist as a male-dominated industry Women in the History of

Aviation in the United States

Akin to their entry in fields that were traditionally dominated by men the venture of women into aviation had a precarious beginning . The conventional belief was that women were too emotionally unstable to be able to pilot airplanes . But some women managed to negate this chauvinistic philosophy by convincing some of the most intransigent male aviators to train them . They eventually succeeded in procuring pilots licenses and piloting their own airplanes (Mankiller , 1999

In the recent decades , female pilots remain few and between . Thousands of women in the aviation industry continue to work as stewardesses (Shayler and Moule , 2005 . Despite the impressive feats of female pilots such as Amelia Earhart , Ruth Nichols and Jacqueline Cochran , it was the stewardess who marketed the aviation industry as a lucrative and safe endeavor for women (Barry , 2007 . This just goes to show that gender roles and ideology in the United States still has a long way to go

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