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"Walking on broken glass": the changing nature of gendered constraints to caree...

This paper investigates the often invisible barriers to women’s career development and performance, through systematic review of literature on gender and labour within organisations. The methodological approach used in this study consists of a thorough literature review of scientific papers collected, via the Online Knowledge Library (b-on). Although gender equality in the labour market is a generally perceived ...

Gender, flexibility and the ‘ideal tourism worker’

This article reports part of the results of a wider research project on gender issues in the tourism sector that was conducted in Portugal over a six-year period, in two phases. The findings presented in this article refer to the second phase, which involved top tourism managers. A questionnaire was used to unveil managerial perspectives and patterns regarding gender in tourism labour, and focus groups were con...

Human capital and gender gaps in the tourism sector: is the employment situatio...

Tourism stands out as an important sector for national economies and a relevant employment generator. (...)

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Global minimum variance portfolios under uncertainty: a robust optimization app...

This paper presents new models which seek to optimize the first and second moments of asset returns without estimating expected returns. Motivated by the stability of optimal solutions computed by optimizing only the second moment and applying the robust optimization methodology which allows to incorporate the uncertainty in the optimization model itself, we extend and combine existing methodologies in order to...

Portfolio selection under uncertainty: a new methodology for computing relative...

In this paper, a new methodology for computing relative-robust portfolios based on minimax regret is proposed. Regret is defined as the utility loss for the investor resulting from choosing a given portfolio instead of choosing the optimal portfolio of the realized scenario. The absolute robust strategy was also considered and, in this case, the minimum investor’s expected utility in the worst-case scenario is ...

Gender, flexibility and the ‘ideal tourism worker’

“Walking on broken glass”: the changing nature of gendered constraints to caree...

This paper investigates the often invisible barriers to women’s career development and performance, through systematic review of literature on gender and labour within organisations. The methodological approach used in this study consists of a thorough literature review of scientific papers collected, via the Online Knowledge Library (b-on). Although gender equality in the labour market is a gene...

Employment situation of tourism graduates in Portugal: a study from a gender pe...

This article aims to present some of the main findings and conclusions resulting from a study conducted in Portugal, as part of the Gentour I project. It is intended, with this work, to make the diagnosis of the employment of tourism graduates, assessing gender disparities in terms of salaries, academic training and areas of activity, as well as analysing the existing conflicts between work and family...

Perceptions of Portuguese tourism graduates concerning women’s professional per...

This study aims at presenting the results of the Gentour Project concerning the perceptions of Portuguese tourism graduates regarding women’s professional performance in leadership positions. The empirical study underlying the present research was based on a survey applied to Portuguese tourism graduates and carried out from December 2010 to March 2011. The sample consisted of 1,419 graduates. Convenience sampl...