Women Leaders–-A New Beginning

Abstract

Even though the number of women in hospitality management has achieved critical mass, women managers continue to encounter discrimination and earn less pay than their male cohorts. Forty-one percent of hospitality managers are women, but less than one-half of one percent of top corporate management are women. This article postulates that women's interactive leadership styles are especially suited for visionary hospitality companies of the 1990s and into the next decade. Suggestions are given for retaining both career-primary and career-and-family managers.