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Determinants of Career Progression and Examining Challenges of Female Employees in the Egyptian Five star Hotels

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Sustainability in tourism and hospitality

Abstract

The research aims to ascertain how career advancement techniques affect women's career advancement and multiple issues in the hospitality sector. This research was carried out in the Egyptian hotels in Cairo and Gizato determine the main difficulties or problems that women in this particular sector of the economy encounter. There is growing evidence about the significance of female employees in the hotel industry, as well as how they handle difficulties that are still present in organizations today. Despite women contribute significantly to hotel labor overall, little is known about the challenges they face there. Therefore, this study looks into the difficulties faced by female hotel staff in Egypt. The primary focus of the investigation was around two different factors, independent being the degree to which factors involving work-life balance, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, networking, and mentoring affect women's job prospects. The information was gathered from a sample of 200 respondents (women employees), who completed a questionnaire to gauge their replies using a likert scale. The results of the study depict that gender discriminationworkload, stress, lowsalaries, and bad promotion prospects andworking hourswere the majorchallengesfacingfemale employees in hotels.

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2023.240553.1508

Keywords

progression, challenges, Discrimination, empowerment

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Atef

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

The higher institute for specific studies

Email

dratefahmed@gmail.com

City

الجيزه

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Eissa

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

the higher institute for specific studies

Email

dr_mohamed_eissa@yahoo.com

City

giza

Orcid

-

Volume

25

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

43321

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2023-10-03

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

106

Page End

122

Print ISSN

1687-1863

Online ISSN

2682-4612

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/article_324057.html

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=324057

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324,057

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Original Article

Type Code

997

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

Publication Link

https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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Determinants of Career Progression and Examining Challenges of Female Employees in the Egyptian Five star Hotels

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Article

Created At

24 Dec 2024