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

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 Giza to 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 discrimination workload, stress, low salaries, and bad promotion prospects and working hours were the major challenges facing female employees in hotels.