Government Report Highlights U.S. Airlines’ Lack of Racial and Gender Diversity
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Diversity matters, especially for the passenger experience, and the U.S. airline that starts to usher in change has a lot to gain.
U.S. airlines will hire more than 317,000 new employees by 2022, according to projections from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), but this growth is not expected to improve the industry's lower rate of employment among women and non-white men.
The report's numbers offer an updated look at realities highlighted in past Skift coverage, and show the challenge U.S. carriers have had both improving diversity within their ranks or even maintaining the already low numbers they previously had.
For example, in 2012 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimated about 93% o
