Gender equality in the hospitality industry: How do female workers see their career opportunities in the hospitality industry, and for what reason?
van Bijsterveldt, Evi (2020)
van Bijsterveldt, Evi
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020052213076
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020052213076
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The aim of this thesis is to identify if there are gender-related issues according to women in their career in the hospitality industry. Moreover, if they experience difficulties in their work-ing opportunities.
The goal is to identify if women encounter difficulties in having working opportunities, which will be analysed by conducting interviews, to find out if they experience difficulties in their working opportunities or not. Additionally, other goals include, to identify existing barriers, and if women still experience these barriers to grow up in a management position, or not.
The focus of this thesis in on how easily or challenging women can reach an upper management position and identifying the different barriers that need to be passed to reach such a position. This focus is chosen by the author, as she wants to reach an upper management position, and therefore, want to understand the barriers that women need to pass, and how they can pass it.
Research of this thesis is done by doing desk research to first have a better understanding about the difficulties that women have in their working possibilities, and field research, to analyse women’s current point of view, where and what kind of problem they currently experience.
The research showed that there are different barriers that stop or held women from reach-ing an upper management position. Such barriers can be segregation, discrimination, work-life balance, and the glass ceiling.
Field research is done by doing semi-structured interviews. This research method is chosen due to the fact, that there can be more of conversation instead of fixed questions and follow up questions are giving more explanation to the general set of questions and answers.
The field research showed that none of the respondents ever noticed direct gender inequality, however, they do still believe that there is gender inequality, and that it has occurred in their lives. Moreover, none of the organizations has a policy to prevent gender in-equality to happen. Meanings on the glass ceiling where divided, where some argued that they bumped into the glass ceiling, and others do not even believe that it exists.
To conclude this research the literature, and field research proves both that gender inequality still occurs in the hospitality industry, nevertheless, it is often because men or more decisive and aggressive in their leadership style, then women are.
The goal is to identify if women encounter difficulties in having working opportunities, which will be analysed by conducting interviews, to find out if they experience difficulties in their working opportunities or not. Additionally, other goals include, to identify existing barriers, and if women still experience these barriers to grow up in a management position, or not.
The focus of this thesis in on how easily or challenging women can reach an upper management position and identifying the different barriers that need to be passed to reach such a position. This focus is chosen by the author, as she wants to reach an upper management position, and therefore, want to understand the barriers that women need to pass, and how they can pass it.
Research of this thesis is done by doing desk research to first have a better understanding about the difficulties that women have in their working possibilities, and field research, to analyse women’s current point of view, where and what kind of problem they currently experience.
The research showed that there are different barriers that stop or held women from reach-ing an upper management position. Such barriers can be segregation, discrimination, work-life balance, and the glass ceiling.
Field research is done by doing semi-structured interviews. This research method is chosen due to the fact, that there can be more of conversation instead of fixed questions and follow up questions are giving more explanation to the general set of questions and answers.
The field research showed that none of the respondents ever noticed direct gender inequality, however, they do still believe that there is gender inequality, and that it has occurred in their lives. Moreover, none of the organizations has a policy to prevent gender in-equality to happen. Meanings on the glass ceiling where divided, where some argued that they bumped into the glass ceiling, and others do not even believe that it exists.
To conclude this research the literature, and field research proves both that gender inequality still occurs in the hospitality industry, nevertheless, it is often because men or more decisive and aggressive in their leadership style, then women are.