Too often, bosses side with chefs as front-of-house staff are easier to replace and are lower in the hospitality hierarchy
At law school, lecturers love to remind their students that they will be entering a boys’ club. In parliament, it’s the same story: watch five minutes of question time and you’ll see it. So maybe we shouldn’t have been so shocked last year when Caroline Tan brought the “boys’ club” of the medical profession to everyone’s attention. Or this year, when Erin Riley experienced backlash after calling out sexism in sport. Yet another conglomerate of educated, middle-class white men were forming a boys’ club, to the detriment of women.
Where else are women being repeatedly pushed around and pushed away in their workplace? The answer is close to home for anyone who’s bought a coffee or beer, or eaten at a restaurant. Hospitality is one of the worst boys’ clubs of all.
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The chef and apprentice began pretending to have sex with the pig, thrusting their hips, erupting in cackles of laughter
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She realised she’d been slammed outside the doors of a B-grade boys’ club
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