Gender Discrimination in Hotels
Gender discrimination
If we were asked to think of the hostile environment for women in the workplace, many of us, initially, would envision blatant employment discrimination, more-so sexual harassment. Despite living in the new age, where such behavior is denounced and illegal, these associations are in no way surprising. Mis-organizational conduct is far too familiar ground to us all. In fact, statistics from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission show that “there has been no systematic decline over the past 12years in the number of discrimination lawsuits filed or the amount of monetary damages to the plaintiffs of these suits.”
However, not all forms of discrimination generate much attention. Evidence has proved that gender discrimination is less visible. In recent studies, it was revealed that a vast number of women in high-level positions in firms strongly believe that social exclusion not only overt discrimination but in turn too is a barrier to women’s’ advancement in their careers. Exclusion from informal networks of communication, inhospitable corporate culture and lack of mentoring are less biased examples that further demonstrate the subtle barriers women face. To further advance this argument, a larger percentage of men were significantly less likely than women to believe that any of these factors hindered women’s’ advancements in their firms.
Gender discrimination in Hotels. {Front Office Department}
As Hotels are our main area of focus in this study, we shall take a more elaborate out-look on how discrimination is pronounced in the Front Office. Although this is a subject many refuse to acknowledge it is very dominant in the industry.
There is an irreconcilable difference between perceptions of what it takes to succeed in various work environments and the attributes that females are presumed to have. One of the main focuses of gender discrimination in the Front Office is mainly stereotypical. By this, many of the factors that
If we were asked to think of the hostile environment for women in the workplace, many of us, initially, would envision blatant employment discrimination, more-so sexual harassment. Despite living in the new age, where such behavior is denounced and illegal, these associations are in no way surprising. Mis-organizational conduct is far too familiar ground to us all. In fact, statistics from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission show that “there has been no systematic decline over the past 12years in the number of discrimination lawsuits filed or the amount of monetary damages to the plaintiffs of these suits.”
However, not all forms of discrimination generate much attention. Evidence has proved that gender discrimination is less visible. In recent studies, it was revealed that a vast number of women in high-level positions in firms strongly believe that social exclusion not only overt discrimination but in turn too is a barrier to women’s’ advancement in their careers. Exclusion from informal networks of communication, inhospitable corporate culture and lack of mentoring are less biased examples that further demonstrate the subtle barriers women face. To further advance this argument, a larger percentage of men were significantly less likely than women to believe that any of these factors hindered women’s’ advancements in their firms.
Gender discrimination in Hotels. {Front Office Department}
As Hotels are our main area of focus in this study, we shall take a more elaborate out-look on how discrimination is pronounced in the Front Office. Although this is a subject many refuse to acknowledge it is very dominant in the industry.
There is an irreconcilable difference between perceptions of what it takes to succeed in various work environments and the attributes that females are presumed to have. One of the main focuses of gender discrimination in the Front Office is mainly stereotypical. By this, many of the factors that