Happy Mother's Day Round-Up Readers!

Working mothers are top of mind today…and every day at hertelier.  Lots has been written this week about why flexible work is good for women and needs to stay. See below. Hope you are celebrating with your mom, but if you are missing her or your children, I can relate!

ICYMI: Our first "Morning Shift" event has been rescheduled to Friday, June 9. Unfortunately, Dr. Raina Brands came down with a bad case of bronchitis. The good news is, you now have another chance to come! Dr. Brands has devoted her career to studying women in the workplace, she will share the science behind informal networks, and explain how to use them to your advantage. It is going to be a great event, I hope you can join! Click here for tickets.

Now, on to the news!

Business, Women, and Random Trends:

• Sexism is the real reason bosses are freaked out by remote work according to Insider Business An interesting essay unwraps hustle culture, the ideal worker, and why remote and flexible work can be better for everyone. Speaking of flexible working, Reshma Saujani, the founder of Moms First and Girls Who Code, is interviewed in Forbes (paywall) about why the rollback to return to office is bad for women. On a similar theme, Fortune (paywall) "flexible work is feminist–and women won’t return to a system that hasn’t served them well to spare the feelings of powerful men."
   

• Goldman Sachs Will Pay $215 Million Bias Settlement—But Still Won’t Disclose This Gender Pay Data Why didn't this get more attention??? This case was originally filed by women in 2010,13 years later they are getting what amounts to about $47,000 each. Basically a rounding error for Goldman guys. <Sigh> Bravo to the women who brought this case and fought for their fair share.
   

• Oh no, it happened again: a famous woman didn’t follow the rules of aging If you missed the hubbub around actress Meg Ryan, this is a great essay in The Guardian about the unrealistic expectations placed on women as they get older.
   

• When should women get regular mammograms? At 40, U.S. panel now says.

  ICYMI new advice comes as breast cancer diagnoses rise among younger women and mortality rates among Black women remain persistently high.
   

• UK companies told to cut down on alcohol at work parties The warning from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) comes as it released a new poll, suggesting a third of managers have seen harassment or inappropriate behavior at parties. Women were more likely than men to say they had witnessed this, not surprisingly!
   

• Luxury lift: the high end is soaring Chartr explains (with charts!) why the luxury market has bounced back--up 36%--since COVID. Fun fact: French brands LVMH, Hermès, Dior, EssilorLuxottica, and Kering, have a combined market cap of over €1 trillion, and those companies have seen their value soar in the last 12 months. LVMH shares have gained 62% and Hermès has jumped 96% — helping to propel Paris's stock exchange to the largest in Europe, taking the crown from London.
   

• AI Developments: Generative AI + Search We are drowning in information yet are unable to find what we need when we need it, and the problem is only getting worse. With Generative AI we are seeing a shift away from information retrieval, towards knowledge retrieval, a delicate but important distinction. In an effort to keep up with ChatGPT just this week, Google announced it is adding AI to search.
   

• RIP MTV News For my fellow Gen Xers, let's have a moment of silence.

Travel & Hospitality news:

• UK Travel: Gender Pay Gap Study Reveals Women Still Earning Significantly Less TTG analysis of gender pay data from 40 of the UK’s largest travel trade firms reveals some progress – but far from enough.
   

•  Eight Problems Women Face in Building a Hospitality Career and Action Steps That Can Help CoStar contributor Mercedes Blanco offers examples of issues for women prevalent in the industry and suggests resources including hertelier
   

• U.S. Hotel Companies Promote More Women, But Challenges Persist Skift has an interesting write-up of the new ALHA Study (which we covered last week) with comments from some senior women in industry.
   

• Where to Go on Your Next Big Vacation, According to Your Horoscope Are you a Libra? A Gemini? The internet’s most literate Zodiac guides, the Astro Poets, chart the season’s well-aligned travel spots for every sign, a fun read in the WSJ (paywall), and might inspire you to run some astrology-based promos!

On hertelier this week:

Big welcome to our new subscribers! The story in Forbes, How Women Are Changing The Hotel Industry, keeps bringing new readers! Super excited to have you here. 
 

• Mother's Day Recipe with Maria Tampakis, Executive Chef, Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown Sweet Mother's Day recipe from Maria Tampakis, Executive Chef, Four Seasons New York Downtown with her pastry chef mom and young daughter.
   

• Mental Health is Top Challenge for Hoteliers: Understanding Burnout Versus Depression A new study of hotel owners cites employee mental health as a top challenge. Columnist Nancy Mendelson unpacks burnout versus depression.
   

• On the Scene: 2023 AHLA ForWard Conference Highlights of the recent AHLA ForWard conference in Chicago which drew more than 600 women!
   

• 5 Ways to Make Your Resume Stand Out with Select Achievements Need help making your resume stand out from the crowd? Career coach Kathy Hubler says the key is merchandising your select achievements.

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• Making Relationships Work (or Not) with Maggie Smith Kara Swisher has a great conversation with poet/author Maggie Smith (not the actress) about the challenges of parenting, working, and marriage.
   

• New Zealand's Hilarious and Effective Online Safety Campaign I never saw this when it ran in 2020, but it just made the rounds on my LinkedIn, so worth watching!!!
   

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Thank you for reading! Have a great week!

Em