The paper is the result of an unprecedented combination of industry and worker inputs, and it has benefitted from information and data provided by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Governments, workers, employers and international organizations all have an important role to play in establishing, promoting and implementing policy choices that advance gender equality. These choices will depend on changing contexts, as gender equality is a constantly moving target.

The paper includes information on some of the current issues faced by women in civil aviation. Through a sectoral gender lens, it examines employment, women’s career cycles and the main decent work opportunities and challenges in the sector. It also identifies ways of accelerating the achievement of gender equality.