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I’m fairly sure many of us receive General Aviation News every day as I do and appreciate the quick review it offers in the latest aviation occurrences.

Today’s article was a bit different and I’d like to share an impression (My unfortunate psychiatric training is responsible for this, so apologies).

Please study this photo that illustrated one of the newsworthy items today:


Did you see it?

I found it really interesting that all of the men in this group of A&P students uniformly held their arms in an adversarial or “crossed arms” position while all of the women (again uniformly) held theirs in a submissive position.

With the increasing validity of the real worth of women in aviation, I was disturbed by this. I’d really like to have seen the women cross their arms to accentuate their value rather than to have assumed what appears to an observer to be a position of subservience.
Our gals in the WASPS, the 99’s, the WIA, so many other worthwhile groups and the great female pilots (aviators) and instructors I’ve known and trained with deserve acknowledgement and appreciation. I don’t expect them to be bossy but at least equal. They have to know this and act accordingly.
Vive La Difference!!