hundred seven while there were just over six hundred thousand pilots last year the aircraft owners and pilots association says u.s. airlines will need over thirty six. hundred new pilots just to keep up with expected retirements attrition and increased demand this year alone the f.a.a. still calls their pilot count civil ehrman statistics get that airmen which suggest one possible cause for the shortage and an obvious and just solution women account for barely more than five percent of pilots according to international social action of women airline pilots by contrast nearly half of cabin crew jobs are done by women earlier this week director of airports council international andrea gets told the global aviation gender summit in cape town quote aviation in general has a difficult enough time lowering the best and brightest over to our industry it's not a track that girls and young women are particularly aware of we need to reverse that . and speaking of gender justice in employment the reputation of the tokyo medical school has suffered this week after revelations that scores for female of female applica