Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5107841 | Annals of Tourism Research | 2017 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
- Female-led businesses are more likely to recruit women, in management positions.
- 'Availability-related flexibility' is a significant tourism employee characteristic.
- Tourism managers construct female workers' lack of availability as a choice.
- Social reproductive gender roles influence 'ideal tourism worker' discourse.
- Tourism managers' silences confirm masculinised 'ideal tourism worker' discourse.
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Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Authors
Carlos Costa, Fiona Eva Bakas, Zélia Breda, MarÃlia Durão, Inês Carvalho, Sandra Caçador,