University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Tourism and Hotel Management

Svetlana Vukosav,Milan Bradić,Vuk Garača,Danka Curaković

doi:10.18509/agb.2021.18

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University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Tourism and Hotel Management

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The tourism industry is one of the world’s largest industries and one of the fastest growing contributing five percent of the world’s GDP and seven percent of the world’s jobs [1]
The goal of this paper is to confirm the problem of the “glass ceiling” in the hotel industry of the northern Serbian province Vojvodina by using the qualitative indicators, stating attitudes, opinions and feelings
Even though most examinees think that gender is not important for working in the hotel industry and that gender is not considered when employing new worker, in continuance they confirm certain prejudices and stereotypes, so from the context you can conclude that 80% examinees think that certain jobs are for men, while others are just for women

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The tourism industry is one of the world’s largest industries and one of the fastest growing contributing five percent of the world’s GDP and seven percent of the world’s jobs [1]. Part of that growing tourism industry is the hotel sector which was forecasted to reach $550 billion USD globally in 2016 [2], [3]. Within this changing and challenging environment, changes in the workforce and employability are evident and required. Organizations in a patriarchal society show “hegemonic masculinity” that refers to practices that legitimate the power of men over women [14]. Under these conditions, women are always in the position of being outsiders, of being “travelers in a male world” [15]. It has been argued that women in certain situations adopt appropriate

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