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TIL that during World War II, USAAF Col. Paul Tibbetts was frustrated with his pilots complaining about how hard it was to fly the new B-29 bomber. He arranged for two women WASP pilots to be trained on the big plane and had them fly it around the country just to shame the men. It worked.
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If a woman can do it a man can much more easily. Except for giving birth and reading certain social signals.
Similar. One reason they wanted stewardesses on early passenger was that having a woman on the flight crew shamed a lot of men into flying.