“Further, the many angles and conflicting areas of airport work demanding constant intervention, can rattle women,as most airport operations require dictating to males.”
You’re just saying women are incapable of doing certain task because they are women and yet you opened the letter saying the last two women were “well educated in their specific areas”. Like dawg wtf are you saying, women can’t speak to men?

“Finally, women too, allow their ‘catty’ behaviour to appear in their management battles, where, unlike their opposites, they become personal and forget their high role.”
I don’t know if you realized that men also act bitchy and arrogant especially when they are high position your perception of it changes, because of their gender this isn’t a fact nor logical in way. Like talk to people about politics you will see the same behavior from both men and female, it isn’t gender it’s societal and personality based.

“The Caribbean man has grave difficulty taking orders from women in powerful positions, and tend not to help them retain their heights attained.”
So instead of changing the route of the issue you want to beat around the bush and change the person that is the Head instead of the person that isn’t following instructions… Make that make sense to me

Leadership is about competence, not chromosomes.

So women can’t manage an airport now? Rubbish.

Mi tired of di same old argument. Give di job to who qualified, man or woman.

This opinion just show how far we still have to go in terms of gender equality.

It’s 2025. We still having dis conversation?

Mi find this opinion disrespectful to all the hardworking women in aviation.

💥 YES leadership IS about competence not chromosomes
Excellently stated Teacher for Life

Ok.

Governments require men at the helm. So do all enterprises both public and private. The world is male dominated so there’s no room for women at the top.
Women, even if you are educated, stay in the home and take care of men and children because the expected male dominance will fail you.

You see how idiotic this sounds???

Incredible
This tired trope from an experienced Antiguan woman in FBO – (private flight handling).

In 2025 we still have to outperform men by at least 75% to be considered for an executive position.

The world is going backwards on so many fronts.

This is rich coming from someone like Makeda. Reads like an attempt to blame the failure of her own life on ‘male dominance’

This will past right over a lot of heads, but I’ll say it anyway.

Our path and purpose in the materialistic world is tied to our curse, both a man and woman.

And I will ask this..what was laid down as the curse for the man or the curse for the woman?

No matter how we try, those are just the rule that has been around for thousands of years,and all of a sudden we think we can change the creators judgement in 25 yrs..yea right.

Men are great in what they do, and woman are great in what they do. And I’m talking norms, not outliers.

And notice I used the word “Great”.
And also for the record, the writer did say it’s their opinion.

If we spent more time recognizing that none of us would be here without a woman…and most of us, a mother…women doing what women do best would not be a problem. I don’t see why some people are intent on making it one. In any age, there is no substitute for a dedicated mother to feed, clothe care and raise EVERY one of us. There is NO alternative, and when these functions are lacking, the entire society suffers. Both of us go out to work, now we have to pay a fortune for proper, safe schooling (and transport to it), work clothes and (unhealthy) meals. Men doing “man” things would not be so much of a problem if we stopped biting the hand that rocks the cradle

This woman probbly wanted the job of airport CEO and never got it.

Let’s be practical here, the majority of the world leaders are men. What a mess they have created …. wars, climate change, slavery etc. The writer of the above article and those who agree should spend some time becoming acquainted with some strong, competent and compassionate female leaders and teachers. For example, the CEOs of many large, successful companies who are female (General Motors in the USA is an example). How about the president of the European Union, the president of Tanzania (a male dominated country), Harriet Tubman. I could go on and on. Men and women have different leadership styles; it’s the outcome that matters.

This article is a masterclass in internalized misogyny masquerading as pragmatism.

The idea that women are inherently unsuited to lead in aviation, or anywhere else, because they’re too emotional fragile, too domestic, or too weak to earn respect from men is not just false, but obscene.

This kind of thinking is exactly why any so-called push for equality keeps getting strangled by the toxic, male-centered status quo.

Coming from someone who frequently touts her own success in the same male-dominated industry she now claims women can’t navigate makes it even more hypocitical and shameful.

Kudos to the author for the audacity to proudly affix her name to something so regressive and transparently self-undermining.

I’m embarrassed reading this if an Antiguan wrote this. I’m not sure what world you live in. Perhaps what your saying in you limited capacity is of your experience. It would be good to know what your job is.

The majority of times that when women don’t succeed at these positions is due to the push back from insecure and chauvinistic men. I am a male and I see it daily.

In order for any organization to operate properly and efficiently, everyone has to play a role and carry out the duties they are responsible for. One person doesn’t constitute a team.

As an Antiguan who has lived abroad for the majority of my lifeand now moved back home. I do see how some one from here could write this. Most men my age here over 45, have been taught to breed the women, have multiple partners, take advantage of the young ones, and let’s not forget, don’t bother with taking resposibilty for their children. Most i said not all. This is why when they go to other countries, they are mechanics, cooks, or security guards or laborers. Trust me I know. They very rarely take the opertunity to further there education for free in these places. But make no mistake unlike the men, the women do take advantage of the opertunity to further themselves even with the dead beat fathers still looking for pussy to emasculate themselves.

My mother lead the government finance sector for 30 years as the FO until she retired. My sister now holds the same position, and my other sister is one of the heads at the Supreme Court. All three positions in a North Amarian Country and they are black.

This article is most likely writen by one of those men that can’t handle a woman in charge, because he hasn’t truly grown up. The ignorance of this article is so palpable. .

This reads like a relic from an era where leadership was measured by how well someone mimicked patriarchal arrogance, not by competence, vision, or integrity.

The suggestion that women can’t handle leadership roles because of an inability to ‘dictate to men’ is embarrassingly unoriginal and the same tired logic which has been used to keep women out of boardrooms for generations.

Why would an airport CEO need to spend ‘midnight to morning on the airport, overlooking Public Workers filling in a hole on the runway’?

Thats where delegation and trusting the expertise of one’s subordinates comes into play. Something unfamilar only to a megalomaniac desperate to control every  minutia of an enterprise.

If your own entrepeneural journey as an FBO pioneer was so exceptional, why not reflect on the barriers you broke, instead of tearing down the next generation of women in aviation?

Wow, so according to Makeda, because men don’t know how to behave, women should not take leadership positions in Airport management? So instead of challenging men to do better and be better under any leadership we should declare women are not fit to lead. THIS is what is wrong! The bar remains so low that it’s buried underground for men but yet we put them on pedestals, expecting women to conform to their unacceptable behaviors. Can’t believe this is coming from an educated, experienced professional woman. Seems we are the problem as much as men. Guess what, we can raise the bar, and not just expect but demand more from men. It will help us develop more as a country and region. We should want/expect/demand good things for ourselves, then women would actually stay in positions where they are thriving and the results will speak for themselves. As one previous commenter stated, this is a classic case of internalized misogyny which unfortunately is quite common in older Caribbean women. hope we move away from this kind of thinking soon.

Our African heritage sees men and women in their own capacity, neither being more, nor less than the other. However in its intelligence is knows that each does better at some jobs than the other. There is no rivalry except for those caught up with western feminist agendas, and no need to prove gender superiority. In woman’s capacity she is as full as a male is in his.

Why when we want something for women only talk about Hig position Jobs? Why no women fight for being a Carpenter, Miners, Fishing, Collecting Garbage on a truck, Masonry, Engineers, Oil Rig workers,? Just to mentions few… Ahhh in those they want to stay in home and don’t complain about male dominance. They don’t even fight for them.. Look how many countries Male with Makeup are taking the spaces of women and they clamp like retard those movement.. Sports, beauty pageant contest, etc. This cultural battle want to destroy male standards to make them feel they are the problem of everything. While the basement of this World is sustained by Men.. Like it or not. I wish APUA start now asking for women to be working in Electrical lines, or installing Water pipes, even installing Fiber Cables…GO woman go Apply for those jobs.