What Challenges Affect Women work in the Hotel industry? Evidence from Five Star hotels in Cairo

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There is a scarcity of research of work influence on women work in in the Context of Egyptian
market, this rarity involves the area of tourism and hotels sector, So women participation in the
tourism and hotel sector is still subject to the influences of values, customs, traditions, social and
economic considerations at the level of the tourism and hospitality industry, as a whole the
scarcity of women work in the hotel sector is noted.This research aims to identify women work
challenges in the hotel sector, to accomplish the research aim, the primary data was gathered
through empirical study conducted by questionnaire strategy on stratified random sample of
women work in Cairo five star hotels, Department of housekeeping and front office. secondary
data was collected from studies related to women work in hospitality sector, to analyze the
gathered data by using Logistic regression could be binary logistic when the dependent variable
takes the values of 0 and 1 (dummy variable) to make sure from the existence of the significant
relationship between study variables and identify the impact of every dimension of Job, Social
and Administrative Challenges on women work in the hotel industry. The results showed that the
image of the society effect on women work in the hotel industry. The results also indicated that
there is a significant impact of Job challenges on women work in the hotel industry, then social
challenges have a significant impact on women work in the hotel industry, while there is a
significant impact of Administrative challenges on women work in the hotel industry.The
Research recommends that the trends of the Egyptian rural society towards women work in the
hotel sector need to be studied.

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