{"id":4948,"date":"2026-04-13T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:04:16","slug":"female-pilot-certificate-data-through-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"Female Pilot Certificate Data Through 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one should argue that having more women in aviation is a good thing. And we are (slowly) doing that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5038 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/femalepilotcertisabove112025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"156\" \/>My tabular data sheet again shows the more granular data points, with female pilot certificate holders for the first time rising to over 11% of the total pilots&#8217; certificate held percentage (11.35%).<\/p>\n<p>About a half of a percent increase compared to past years was also experienced in the percentage of student pilot certificates issued to females, with 16.41% being issued to females in 2025. This has been a relatively common trend over the past few years, with the number of student pilot certificates steadily increasing by about 1\/2% each year.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the data, now through 2025, seems to show slight progress in the percentages of pilot certificates held by and student pilot certificates issued to female pilots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4949 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesGraph2002-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesGraph2002-2025.png 959w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesGraph2002-2025-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesGraph2002-2025-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesGraph2002-2025-431x300.png 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s slow progress, but it is at least progress as we continue to work on increasing participation in pilot certification and career pathways for our female compatriots.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4950\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesTable2002-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"837\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesTable2002-2025.png 837w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesTable2002-2025-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesTable2002-2025-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FemalePilotCertificatesTable2002-2025-500x242.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one should argue that having more women in aviation is a good thing. And we are (slowly) doing that. My tabular data sheet again shows the more granular data points, with female pilot certificate holders for the first time &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}