TAL030-2: Gender Equality and Issues in Hospitality Operations

This presentation delves into the critical issues surrounding gender inequality within the international hospitality sector. It examines the pervasive challenges such as unequal access to education, employment discrimination, unequal pay, and limited promotional opportunities for women. The presentation emphasizes the importance of gender equality for the efficient operation and overall success of hospitality businesses, highlighting how providing growth opportunities for women can enhance productivity and performance. It concludes by underscoring the necessity of valuing all employees and ensuring equal opportunities to foster job satisfaction. The presentation also provides references to relevant research and publications in the field.

International
hospitality operations

Table of content
 Introduction
 Issues related to gender and equality
 Why hospitality sector needs to do more to improve gender equality
 Why should gender differences in hospitality really matter
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality industry is the biggest sector of service industry
that includes food and beverages, lodging, travel and tourism
and recreation. There are various operations of hospitality
management are performed by the hospitality organisation
such as implementation of resources, equipment, material as
well as technology.

Issues related to gender and equality
Gender inequality is defined social phenomenon in which men and
women are not treated equally. The treatment raised due to various
aspects such as biology, cultural norms, psychology that are
prevented in the society.
 Uneven access to education: It is the most effective issues that
is raised due to the gender inequality such as women have less
access of education than men.

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 Lack of employment inequality: It is related to the issues of discriminating girls
over the boys to provide the opportunity of employment. There are only several
countries in world gives same legal work right to women as men.
 Unequal pay: It is the issues that is related to providing unequal or lesser payment
to the women after having equal qualification and work experience.
 Women are promoted less often than men: Despite of being more educated than
men, women are getting less promotional and development opportunities in
organisation.

Why hospitality sector needs to do more
to improve gender equality
Gender equality is very important for the hospitality sector
because it helps business to perform its operations in efficient
manner and lead overall operations towards accomplishment. In
current business environment, various growth and development
opportunities are provided by the hospitality sector to the women
that enhances business productivity and performance level.

Why should gender differences in
hospitality really matter
 There is key role of gender equality in hospitality sector in order to carry on their
operations equally.
 All the men and women that have ability to work must be given the opportunity
and their work must be valued.
 In order to enhance the job satisfaction of the employees working in a hotel,
gender equality really matters.

CONCLUSION
As per above presentation, it can be concluded that
gender inequality is concept that creates various
issues and problems. It is related to providing lesser
opportunities, unequal pay, employment opportunities
to women as compared to men.

References
 Rossidis, I., Belias, D. and Vasiliadis, L., 2021. Strategic Human Resource
Management in the International Hospitality Industry. An Extensive Literature
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346.
 Bergs, Y. and Lub, X., 2020. International Human Resource Management in the
Hospitality Industry. The Routledge Companion To International Hospitality
Management, pp.279-295.
 Ruel, H. and Njoku, E., 2020. AI redefining the hospitality industry. Journal of Tourism
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 Zhetpisbaeva, A.T. and Zholzhanova, N.T., 2018. The impact of innovation on the
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