Women Chefs Workplace Integrity in Commercial Eateries Challenges and Opportunities in Twenty First Century India

Traditionally, Indian food has a rich legacy of being attributed towards women. In a typical Indian family, she has a significant role in managing household work including domestic kitchen. Increasingly, women in contemporary time are now being compelled by the economy to apply their domestic cooking skills in commercial kitchens. Furthermore, with the growth and acceptance of Indian food worldwide has resulted in increasing numbers of Indian restaurants and other catering forms, which explains the increased demand for more skilled, semi skilled and non skilled kitchen workforce. Simultaneously, to fulfill the workforce demand, mushrooming of culinary institutions has taken place, which have given the recruiters the right platform and opportunity to hire more women in non domestic kitchens in an organized way knowing the historical and cultural potential of women in culinary skills. These women express their worldview through the values they give to their cooking as they do so. Due to their commonalities, these women are seen as important and natural key player of the society who possess comparable ideals, beliefs, and skills. To analyze the sociocultural forces that shape womens ethical culture in food establishments today, this article explains why women have been capable of negotiating their working identities in the culinary industry, due to the connection between women and gastronomy for generations. The purpose of this research is to discover the difficulties that women experience in a commercial kitchen and how they handle the challenges to reach the position of a chef. It also assesses the benefits, and motivations the business route, it provides for them. The researcher has chosen a qualitative method to collect data involving twelve female chefs who agreed to share their views and discussed their experiences on pre selected subjects via questionnaire. Dr. Garima Parkash | Mr. Subir Kumar Malakar | Mr. Abhishek Roy "Women Chef's Workplace Integrity in Commercial Eateries- Challenges and Opportunities in Twenty-First Century India" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52291.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/52291/women-chefs-workplace-integrity-in-commercial-eateries-challenges-and-opportunities-in-twentyfirst-century-india/dr-garima-parkash