EasyJet's gender pay gap widens even with more female pilots

EasyJet hired more female pilots last year, taking the proportion in its cockpits to 5%, but that didn’t stop the gender pay gap widening as women were also added in lower-earning flight attendant jobs. Male employees at the carrier earned an average of 54.1% more than their female colleagues in 2018, a greater disparity than the previous year’s 51.7%. Airlines tend to have a wide wage gap because high-paying pilot jobs are dominated by men, whereas women make up a bigger proportion of cabin crew -- 71% at EasyJet -- who receive much less. The industry says part of the problem is a lack of would-be female aviators. The company has been vocal about its efforts to alter the balance, and said that 18% of new-entrant pilots this year will be women as it seeks to lift the overall proportion to one-fifth by 2020. <br/>