INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: TOURISM SECTOR CAN DO MORE TO STEP IT UP ON GENDER EQUALITY
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, calls upon the tourism sector to step up policies and businesses practices that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. The UNWTO/UN Women Global Report on Women in Tourism shows that tourism can offer significant opportunities to narrow the gender gap in employment and entrepreneurship as women are nearly twice as likely to be employers in tourism as compared to other sectors. The Report also shows that women are well represented in service and clerical level jobs, but poorly represented at professional levels and earn 10% to 15% less than their male…
