Abstract

Attracting and retaining female chefs

Highlights

  • Charles is a chef and lecturer at Kenya Utalii College, Nairobi, Kenya

  • The aim of this research was to establish if female chefs in Kenya encounter similar challenges to those experienced by female chefs elsewhere

  • Previous research shows that female chefs encounter career challenges in hospitality organisations and they struggle to make it as chefs; for example, studies by Druckman [1] and Harris and Giuffre [2,3] in the United States, Murray-Gibbons and Gibbons [4] in the United Kingdom, as well as Zengeni et al [5] in Zimbabwe

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Introduction

Charles is a chef and lecturer at Kenya Utalii College, Nairobi, Kenya. His research interests include inhospitable hospitality, culinary arts, human behaviour in the hospitality industry, and indigenous research. The chef profession is considered a challenging career, with female chefs seeming to be most affected. The aim of this research was to establish if female chefs in Kenya encounter similar challenges to those experienced by female chefs elsewhere.

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