The Effect Of Tourism Employment On Women's Empowerment

One of a research focus in recently years is the community and individual empowerment bring about by tourism development,especially women employees' empowerment.However,the mechanism among the women employee's economic empowerment,psychological empowerment and family status is lack of study.Based on surveys of tourism women employees and family women in the Shuiman Country,Wuzhishan City and XIN Village in,Lingshui County.This study analyzed the relationship and mechanism among the tourism women employee's economic empowerment,psychological empowerment and family status,using a qualitative research method(sociological interview method)and a quantitative research method.First of all,the sociological interview method was adopted to determine the economic power increase,psychological power increase and family status dimension and sub dimension of tourist employed women.The relationship model of women's power increasing effect and family status promotion was put forward.Then,the data were collected by questionnaire survey method,and the data were analyzed with independent sample T test and hierarchical regression analysis,and the tourism was compared.The difference between economic women's empowerment,psychological empowerment and family status is between working women and family women.The relationship between the empowerment effect and the promotion of family status is also examined.The main conclusions are as follows:(1)women in tourism industry get significant economic empowerment and psychological empowerment.Tourism women are significantly higher than family women in the two indicators of "income improvement" and "family economic status",and tourist women are significantly higher than their family women in the aspects of "self consciousness","self-consciousness","self efficacy" and "gender role consciousness".(2)the family status of women in tourism industry has been significantlyimproved.This shows that the amount of housework undertaken by tourism women is significantly lower than that of family women,and it has a more utterance right in family affairs decision-making and family expenditure control.In the case of family conflict,tourism women have more ability and advantage than family women to adopt appropriate strategies(such as persuasion)to solve and deal with.(3)economic empowerment directly results in psychological empowerment for women in tourism industry.The increase of economic income has promoted and consolidated women's voice and family status in the family.(4)psychological empowerment is the direct cause of the promotion of the family status of the women in the tourism industry,and the intermediary and adjustment variables of the economic power increasing to influence the family status.In order to enable women to gain economic and psychological power and improve their family status,it should not only increase the opportunities for training and employment,but also strengthen education and enhance their awareness of equal rights on the basis of improving women's economic income so that women can gain the right to increase their rights in a real sense.