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 women's 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 & 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 chef's who agreed to share their view's and discussed their experiences on pre-selected subjects via questionnaire.
Female chef’s; Indian Cuisine; Gender Identities; Catering; Commercial Kitchens; Culinary knowledge
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development - IJTSRD having
online ISSN 2456-6470. IJTSRD is a leading Open Access, Peer-Reviewed International
Journal which provides rapid publication of your research articles and aims to promote
the theory and practice along with knowledge sharing between researchers, developers,
engineers, students, and practitioners working in and around the world in many areas
like Sciences, Technology, Innovation, Engineering, Agriculture, Management and
many more and it is recommended by all Universities, review articles and short communications
in all subjects. IJTSRD running an International Journal who are proving quality
publication of peer reviewed and refereed international journals from diverse fields
that emphasizes new research, development and their applications. IJTSRD provides
an online access to exchange your research work, technical notes & surveying results
among professionals throughout the world in e-journals. IJTSRD is a fastest growing
and dynamic professional organization. The aim of this organization is to provide
access not only to world class research resources, but through its professionals
aim to bring in a significant transformation in the real of open access journals
and online publishing.