Gender, flexibility and the ‘ideal tourism worker’

Carlos Costa, Fiona Eva Bakas, Zélia Breda, Marília Durão, Inês Carvalho and Sandra Caçador

Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 64, issue C, 64-75

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.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.03.002

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