Questão de Língua Inglesa

From cockpit to cab drivers, companies want more women to fly them. The outsized miniature Airbus 320 Neo hanging from the ceiling marks the entry of I-fly – a seven storey building where India’s largest airline, IndiGo, mints pilots out of fresh college graduates. It was here, during the six months of training that many women graduates sat in an aircraft for the first time. They were part of a batch of 77 that the airline inducted yesterday to mark Independence Day. The airline has 800 women pilots, the highest among any commercial airlines in the world but it is still 14% of the 5,038 pilots it employs whereas overall female representation in the company is 44%. The airline is determined to change that and has set a plan to increase the number to 1,000 by the end of this year, say officials. The airline announced the hiring for the special batch in January. “These are inspiring stories. Many of them who hail from rural areas will go on to inspire women around them who became encouraged to take up the profession, breaking the perception that the cockpit can be dominated by only male.” Ashim Mittra, senior vice president at IndiGo, said. (…) Adapted from https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines