Women in Aviation: Conquering the Skies One Flight at a Time

At present, Russia has only 30 women pilots, while, for example, in the United States this number is about 2,000. Some 25,500 women are working as pilots worldwide.

The ability to make quick decisions, equanimity, resistance to stress and a technical mindset has been known to be a prerogative of men. Although modern women in no way lack the same skills as the so-called stronger sex.

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A female crew from the Russian airlines Pobeda (Victory) on the flight Moscow-Istanbul.

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Head pilot Maria Uvarovskaya at the helm.

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Brazilian airline GOL pilot Gabriela Carneiro Duarte (3rd R) walks with her crew at Tom Jobim international airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before departing on an all-female crew flight to mark International Women's Day.

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Anny Divya, 31, an Indian pilot who became the youngest woman in the world to captain a Boeing 777 aircraft, poses next to planes at the Indian Air Force Museum in New Delhi.

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Chechen pilot Larina Evmurzayeva, piloting the Yak-42 plane of Grozny Avia airlines.

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Co-pilot of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 from Red Wings airline Daria Sinichkina stands next to a plane.

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The first Egyptian female pilot to fly EgyptAir's biggest jet airliner, the Boeing 777-333, Magda Malek, adjusts her cap, at her home, on International Women's Day, in Cairo, Egypt.

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Pakistani pilot Ayesha Rabia Naveed, right, with her co-pilot Sadia Aziz, left, pose for a photograph at their office in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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The first woman pilot at Belarusian airlines Belavia Svetlana Emerenko.

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Wang Zhiqian, the first female pilot at Sichuan Airlines, walks past the first assembled Airbus A320 during a presentation and delivery ceremony at the Airbus Tianjin plant.

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A female pilot from Air India, the country's state-owned carrier, adjusts the cap of another during the celebration ceremony of an all women crew of their airlines on the eve of International Women's Day, in New Delhi, India.

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A woman co-pilot in a cockpit aboard an Air France Airbus A 320 during a special flight from Paris to Seville to attend the first Airbus A400 test flight in Spain.

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Female pilots Chen Pei-pei (L) Ho Fang (C) and Sun Hui-chun from Taiwan's China Airlines make a thumb-ups sign in front of a model of Boeing 747-400 passenger aircraft bearing a logo of the company in Taipei.

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Aeroflot's youngest pilot, Maria Fedorova in a cabin with a co-pilot.