Women of Aviation Week, March 4-10

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week {WOAW} is a global aviation awareness week for girls of all ages observed to mark the anniversary of the world’s first female pilot licence (March 8, 1910). The week is a call to address gender imbalance in the air and space industry. It is not country or group specific

Since March 2010, Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week’s activities have been organized in 52 countries on 5 continents. 420,000 women and girls attended the Week’s local hands-on activities. 69,768 women and girls experienced their first flight in a small aircraft in response to the Week’s Fly It Forward call to action.

For more information see Women Of Aviation Week on iwoaw.org and Women in Aviation article from Grapevine Magazine as well as 2009 Stamp Honouree Vi Milstead

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