US Seeks to Rename (and defund) UN Aviation Program Over Term 'Gender'
Source: Reuters
US Seeks to Rename UN Aviation Program Over Term 'Gender'
Aug. 5, 2025, at 9:58 a.m.
MONTREAL (Reuters) -The United States wants to rename and defund a UN aviation agency's "gender" program that promotes participation by women in aviation, as President Donald Trump's administration takes on diversity policies ahead of a fall gathering of high-level aerospace regulators.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) should rename its Gender Equality Programme as the Empowerment Program for Women, "in order to remove the ideological term of 'gender,'", the U.S. wrote in a working paper ahead of the U.N. agency's triennial assembly which starts on September 23.
It also asked the agency's secretariat to confirm that "no regular budgetary contributions" would be used for the program under the current name.
ICAO's Gender Equality Programme seeks to advance equality in the sector, where the vast majority of pilots and aerospace mechanics, for example, are male.
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Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-05/us-seeks-to-rename-un-aviation-program-over-term-gender
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Trump went much further. I don't like to use The Telegraph, but they are the one of the few sources reporting.
Trump: Push to hire female pilots puts passengers at risk (The Telegraph)
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