I look forward to a day when this is no longer headline news and people won't bat an eyelash when they see a woman in the cab of a steam locomotive.....or in the cockpit of a 5th generation fighter aircraft. A few years back, I recall hearing a young woman who flew Left Wing on the USAF Thunderbirds demo team say in plain English that she didn't want to be interviewed because she was a woman flying with the Thunderbird team. She wanted to be interviewed to talk about the job and the Thunderbird mission. And that is as it should be.

Same here. To do that, we actively have to work towards the goal of "normalizing" such former anomalies.

I remember doing an article on one female steam fireman trainee in the 1980s for a museum/operation newsletter. Of course, the PR part of the newsletter editing fawned over the story, but I later overheard misgivings by crews about her performance, saying she simply wasn't up to snuff, using the "I'm just a girl..." excuse too often to weasel out of some of the expected duties, and reportedly she didn't last long as a trainee.