Queensland woman Ivy Pearce made history in the 1930s as one of Australia's first female pilots — but almost 90 years later women only make up 5 per cent of the world's pilots.
Ivy May Pearce felt a rising sense of panic as the aircraft she was flying kept rising and falling without her changing altitude.Experts say gender bias is prevalent in today's aviation industryShe had no idea why it was happening until she her male passengers later confessed to running up and down the aisle to mess with the young pilot, so surprised were they to see a woman behind the controls in the 1930s.
"Just like today, the gender bias Ivy would have faced probably didn't come from within the industry — a lot of bias comes from outside. Ipswich woman Ivy May Pearce, later Ivy Hassard, was one of the first female pilots in the southern hemisphere, as well as one Australia's first aerobatic pilots. Ms Hassard said her mother designed many of her own flying outfits and opened the first fashion boutique on the Gold Coast in 1946, after running a pub in Toowoomba.
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