Women in Food Service

Women and catering. As you can say "a woman's place is the kitchen", but with the chef the situation is different. No one is as good at cooking as mothers and grandmothers, but if you look at the star chefs, the overall ratio is only 4%. So the question arises. What do we think about sexism in the world of food? Not good. Thank you. To be more precise, we can see them being a few steps ahead, but the stereotypes remain where we want to see them. But let's evaluate the situation, because there is something to discuss for all tastes, from the so-called 'polite menu' to the propensity towards customers who have 'better taste'.

Women and catering

Let's start immediately with the so-called "vertical separation" problem. Despite the enormous challenges of this period, in the restaurant world there are many well-trained and capable women. According to the FIPE census conducted in Italy last year, around a third of the 336,000 catering establishments are managed by women. Additionally, more than half (1.2 million employees) of employees working in the restaurant industry are women (52%).

Women and catering

Women and catering

Vertical separation refers to a concentration of one of the two veins at a specific location in a specific workspace. Scale of any hierarchical method: collaboration with the management position of the place of employment as well as a high technical content. Guidelines for work, high or low qualifications, specialization of broader or lower reputation, bonuses and benefits, instability or stable contracts, full or part-time. Typical examples of vertical gender isolation are in school: teacher populations do not have a male "status" risk, but most school leaders are mostly male.

Women and catering

The problem is that there are many obstacles and many chefs don't reach the higher levels. According to the Michelin Guide, there are still very few starred chefs in the world. For example, in France, the cradle of new cuisine, there are only 16 starred chefs out of 621, while in Italy, 45 out of 367, over 7%, women have a slightly higher share.

If this isn't enough, we will end up with perhaps the most common bias: customer bias. The idea that there are “feminine” tastes persists, as all women unanimously prefer certain foods and wines. Journalist and food critic Georgia Cannarella said: “At a tasting of Ligurian wines I was told that women prefer aromatic wines much more than men. , she hinted) happened when women started drinking wine more regularly.

Women and catering: jobs

Women and catering

After all, we also know that the world is full of these beliefs, but is there a scientific basis for them? “I remember asking the taste chemistry professor in Pollenzo if there was any difference in taste between men and women. He said no", wrote the journalist. And the level of patriarchy comes, as we well know, to the fact that women are offered an expensive menu and wine lists are offered only to men.

Women and catering

348,000 women in Italy work in restaurants and bars. It is one of the few categories in which female employment is higher than male employment. In fact, 54% of our employees are women. This was stated by Luciano Sbraga, Director of the Study Office of the Italian Federation of Public Movement (Fipe), a leading association in the catering, entertainment and tourism sector with over 300 thousand companies. It employs around 1 million people and has an added value of over 40 billion euros. Therefore, female employment in this sector is not discriminated and, unfortunately, continues for many other professions. From north to south, bars and restaurants are dominated by female staff, from chefs to food stall holders. Women are mostly in restaurants and part-time contracts that are highly sought after and used in this industry might be easier.Women make up approximately 40% of all contracts.

Conclusions

Women and catering

When 72% of a chef interview is in one hand, where it happens in a place where it happens, he said he had a lot of obstacles because he had a lot of obstacles. Three (60%) say a person promotes a publicly job path. I am confident that 60% of respondents did not have a female chef in the restaurant where they work, but the number of women (52%) (52%) were confident that the number of chefs has increased over the past five years. Among those who have a male chef in the kitchen, 68% can change this situation as soon as this decision is not relevant to a type of accessories and potential customers. In Italian chef, there are other famous chefs for many years. The most recognized by those who responded to the survey are Anthony Clogmann (7%), Cristina Bungman (6%), NADIA SANI (5%), Annie Feldo (4%) and Vivian Varese (3%).

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