When Ruth Smith goes to work, she is one of just 5 per cent, give or take, of global employees in her role who are women. Smith is a pilot with British Airways (BA) and flies commercial Boeing 777 planes. While women are heavily involved in the aviation industry in jobs like cabin crew and air traffic control, they have historically been sidelined when it comes to flying or fixing planes. This is despite the fact that these jobs are some of the few in the world without a gender pay gap. For International Women’s Day, Euronews Travel talked to three pilots and an engineer about what it’s like t…