#GAReads | Could women solve the global pilot shortage?
Mrs. Betty H. Gillies was the first woman pilot to be "flight checked" and accepted by the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. (via Wikimedia Commons)
“Could women solve the global pilot shortage?”:
Claire Banks is about to fulfil her childhood dream of flying planes for a living.
After almost a decade as a physiotherapist, her aviation career is now ready to take off.
The 36-year-old from Lancashire in the north of England has just been offered a job as a pilot by UK carrier EasyJet, joining a small but growing number of women around the world flying commercial aircraft.
Once seen as a very male job, Claire says that attitudes have thankfully changed over the past two decades.