Week 44 | 2014

I was lucky enough this week to attend a luncheon where the keynote speaker was Deborah Lawrie Wardley. For those who are too young to remember her name or were not in Australia at the time, Debbie was the first female pilot for Ansett. She won Victoria's first Equal Opportunity case in 1979 against Ansett.

Our table at lunch

Myself, Heather, Romy and Debbie

She was a modern day suffragette for women in a field where the airlines stated that pilots needed strength, unions would object, women's menstrual cycles made them unsuitable and pregnancy and childbirth would disrupt their career and jeopardise safety and incur extra costs for the company.

Thankfully we have come a long way since then. I would like to see some of our male pilots where I work up against the females in a RPM class or a Body Combat class! I have to thank Debbie for without women like her paving the way my generation would still be in the kitchen washing dishes waiting for her man to come home from work.

Please do not get me wrong I am married to a true gentleman who still after 12 years opens the door for me and pulls out my chair and will always pick up the bill but is proud that his wife is self sufficient and can handle her own in the boardroom of what is unfortunately still a very male dominated industry.

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