TY - GEN
T1 - Analysing Competencies by Gender in Internships
AU - Ferreras-Garcia, Raquel
AU - Sales-Zaguirre, Jordi
AU - Serradell-López, Enric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper aims to analyse whether acquisition of competencies is influenced by students’ gender in an internship environment. In order to analyse these effects, we present an introductory and empirical study to know the relationship between gender and competencies in a tourism internship course. A quantitative analysis was conducted on 389 students from the bachelor’s degree programme on Tourism and Hospitality Management at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Sant Ignasi. The analyses show that women achieve higher levels of competencies than men, except for those related to initiative and entrepreneurial spirit and sensitivity and intercultural awareness. Moreover, significant differences between men and women were found in competencies related to orientation towards achievement and service and planning and organisation. The key finding is the positive effect of being female on competencies, which reveals that in general the level of competencies of men were poorer than those of women when participating in internships.
AB - This paper aims to analyse whether acquisition of competencies is influenced by students’ gender in an internship environment. In order to analyse these effects, we present an introductory and empirical study to know the relationship between gender and competencies in a tourism internship course. A quantitative analysis was conducted on 389 students from the bachelor’s degree programme on Tourism and Hospitality Management at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Sant Ignasi. The analyses show that women achieve higher levels of competencies than men, except for those related to initiative and entrepreneurial spirit and sensitivity and intercultural awareness. Moreover, significant differences between men and women were found in competencies related to orientation towards achievement and service and planning and organisation. The key finding is the positive effect of being female on competencies, which reveals that in general the level of competencies of men were poorer than those of women when participating in internships.
KW - Competencies
KW - Gender
KW - Higher education
KW - Internships
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102635786
SN - 9783030620653
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Complexity
SP - 411
EP - 419
BT - Research and Innovation Forum 2020 - Disruptive Technologies in Times of Change
A2 - Visvizi, Anna
A2 - Lytras, Miltiadis D.
A2 - Aljohani, Naif R.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - International Research and Innovation Forum, RIIFORUM 2020
Y2 - 15 April 2020 through 17 April 2020
ER -