WAL | ChangeHorizon

Women in Aviation

and Logistics

Women in Aviation and Logistics initiative aims to mobilize the businesses, trade associations and individual professionals to advocate for change and define concrete targets and an action plan to achieve gender equality in air cargo industry.

Program objectives

Raising awareness of women air cargo professionals by celebrating and promoting their great achievements in the industry
Maintaining a public database of female speakers in aviation and logistics
Setting-up forums at global, local or company levels to share best practices and actionable advice among industry peers
Establishing a knowledge center with industry facts and figures to raise awareness on current gender gaps within air cargo, including the gender pay gap and other inequalities, and open public debates to challenge the status quo
Increasing gender balance in senior management and leadership roles
Pushing for progress in broader diversity and inclusion metrics across the industry

Take action now

Join our WAL mentoring scheme
Support the Women in Aviation & Logistics Pledge on social media to amplify the message
Sign up as individual and/or on behalf of your organization to join the conversation, act as an advocate for change and make a difference
Join the 2021 Open Challenge for event organisers to help redress gender balance on speaker line ups and delegate attendance at conferences globally
Celebrate women’s achievements: publicly recognize the contribution and achievements of your female colleagues, consistently using #InspiringCargoWoman hashtag
Increase women’s visibility at events: identify female experts we would all benefit from hearing and encourage them to submit their expert profile to help event organisers to set up diverse panels

Sign the Pledge

Submit details of a woman speaker

Join the mentoring scheme

Join the 2021 Open Challenge for events

Events

Mentorship and female expert database launch event

Women in Aviation and Logistics (WAL) launched new mentorship scheme and resource hub to host its searchable female speaker database at a press conference event during the IATA's World Cargo Symposium 2021 in Dublin.

WAL has developed a new online hub at womeninaviationandlogistics.org with resources to facilitate and support mentors and mentees, who are asked to commit to a minimum of four hours over fourth months..

Launch event

Over 70 supporters joined the first Women in Aviation and Logistics Seminar on 23 March 2021, featuring an invited speaker Henrik Kofod-Hansen, Co-Founder of Novosensus, who highlighted that while only 13% of senior leaders are female, research shows they make better leaders when scored across a variety of categories.

Delegates agreed that the lack of gender equality within the aviation and logistics sectors is very visible at events, in the media and in senior leadership representation, especially at Board Room level.