I've worked aircraft maintenance for a few years. Fighters. Women were OK for a lot of light stuff. Avionics, pre-flight inspection & servicing. Some component shops, wire bundles and second line electronic cards, back in the day. Obviously not very good at changing tires or loading ordnance (especially AIM 9s). They tended to be meticulous, so good for that avionincs & wires. But yeah, if you have to start having to be picky about where you can assign a tech becasue they can't handle some things, they become a pain in the ass. Also young women tend to get pregnant - a good thing for society, raising a family - but not such a good thing when you are running a maintenance shop.
This.
I was maintenance. I hated working with women because they couldn't do shit other than get me and the rest of the guys tools.
Every woman I've worked with in the military ended up working a desk job after being on the flight line for 2-3 months tops.
I've worked aircraft maintenance for a few years. Fighters. Women were OK for a lot of light stuff. Avionics, pre-flight inspection & servicing. Some component shops, wire bundles and second line electronic cards, back in the day. Obviously not very good at changing tires or loading ordnance (especially AIM 9s). They tended to be meticulous, so good for that avionincs & wires. But yeah, if you have to start having to be picky about where you can assign a tech becasue they can't handle some things, they become a pain in the ass. Also young women tend to get pregnant - a good thing for society, raising a family - but not such a good thing when you are running a maintenance shop.