It is shocking that despite being a very forward-looking industry that stimulates development, innovation, and entrepreneurship, aviation continues to have a gender bias where women comprise only 3 percent of aviation CEOs and 6 percent pilots are female. Even though the front line and lower-level female staff account for 50 percent of the total strength, the pipeline starts tapering towards the top. This is not unique to the aviation industry. There are only 25 women CEOs of S&P 500 companies, making it about 5 percent of the pool. Indra K. Nooyi will leave her position as CEO of PepsiCo effective October 3, 2018, thus bringing that number down, and she will, unfortunately, not be replaced by a female. This seems to be a recurring trend that when women CEOs step down, they are replaced by male CEOs. Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelez International was replaced by a man, as was Meg Whitman at HP Enterprise. PepsiCo's outgoing CEO Indra Nooyi is part of a dwindling number of women CEOs across the world.