Gender and salaries in hotel financial management: it’s still a man’s world

Abstract

Research into the careers and salaries of financial controllers in the hospitality industry has shown continuing discrepancies between men and women. Analysis of the results of a survey indicates that the assumption that differentials are based purely on gender are somewhat simplistic and that it is in the nature of the work that men and women perform that the real reasons emerge. Women and men appear in general to undertake different types of job within hospitality financial management, those with higher status and hence pay being more likely to be held by men. Occupational segregation and educational level emerge as being major factors although ongoing social attitudes towards women’s employment have limited their progress. It is essential for these attitudes to change if the hospitality industry is to optimise the use of all skilled and trained financial managers to the benefit of the business.

Is there a future for hotel financial controllers?

“…This, as has happened elsewhere, has resulted in controllers becoming far more of a member of the management team and an advisor to the business (Burgess, 1995(Burgess, , 2000(Burgess, , 2003. Technology has improved the processing of accounts and, hence, reduced the importance of this in the controller's role, but there has been a corresponding increase in the importance of analysis and interpretation of the accounts to aid in optimising profitability.…”

“…The design was also based on earlier research within BAHA, which has been discussed in previous papers (see Burgess, 2003, for instance), and this was then updated based on findings from the literature. This enabled some wide-ranging qualitative questions to be asked, as well as gaining quantitative data as to the extent of outsourcing and centralisation.…”

İş Yaşamında Cinsiyet Ayrımcılığı: Kadın Aşçılar Örneği (Sex Discrimination in Professional Life: Example of Female Cooks)

“…Bu sektörde istihdam edilenlerin cinsiyetine göre dağılımına bakıldığında, kadın istihdam oranı bütün diğer sektörlerde olduğu gibi turizm sektöründe de erkek istihdam oranına göre düşük olduğu görülmektedir. Sektörde turizm istihdamına yönelik yapılan birçok araştırmada; kadınların daha çok alt seviyedeki, düşük ücretli işlerde çalıştırıldıkları, işe alma ve terfi konularında cinsiyetçi ayrıma maruz kaldıkları tespit edilmiştir (Burgess, 2003;Costa, ve diğ, 2011).…”

An investigation of Australian and New Zealand hotel ownership

“…Star-rating has been widely measured in hotel research (see e.g., Burgess, 2003;Guilding & Lamminmaki, 2007;Harrington & Keating, 2006;McKay, Clack, Batchelor, Astbury, & Teerapittayapaisan, 2002;Nebel, Braunlich, & Zhang, 1994). The current study used Guilding and Lamminmaki's (2007) measure of star-rating by asking the respondent: "What is the star-rating of your hotel?…”