It would appear that even in a galaxy far, far away that the women's liberation movement couldn't gain any ground. In Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, there were three unnamed lady pilots in the movie who didn't make the final cut. Two of the pilots can be seen in the extras for the Blu-ray release of the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Both were A-Wing pilots and one even received the speaking line of "Got it" but the line was dubbed by a male actor in post-production. The second pilot is considerably older and perhaps a retired Rebel? The third female pilot doesn't make it into the Blu-ray extras but she is French actress Vivienne Chandler and spent three days on the set and even had an entire line of dialogue between herself and another pilot. Footage was shot but no longer exists of her flying an X-Wing.

No official explanation as to why these characters were cut but since the movie was released in the 80's and had fuzzy, little Ewoks for kids than maybe Lucas didn't want show women disrespect by blowing them up in space.

Source: Yahoo! Movies