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Dig out your fondue pot, because we're about to to get all 1970s on you. The 2009 StarChefs.com salary survey has been released, and the results may awaken your inner radical feminist.
According to the survey, female chefs make, on average, 24 percent less than their male counterparts. And, putting the salary inequity aside for a moment, the survey also points out that women are just plain underrepresented -- only 13 percent in the executive chef category are women. (For a point of comparison, that's even lower than the percentage of women in Congress.) As Grub Street San Francisco put it, it's time for the ladies to "cry fowl" (oof).
Now that we've brought the subject up, let's keep going: During the last round of the James Beard Awards, of the 24 recipients only 3 were women. Grub Street theorizes that the problem is marketing -- women don't drum up the hype that men do, and hence tend to be ignored, both by award-givers and investors. Alex Raij, chef at Txikito and El Quinto Pino, mused to the Village Voice that this may be in part because it's considered sexy to be a male chef, but not so much to be a female chef (Nigella Lawson notwithstanding, one would assume).
Or maybe it's just that restaurant kitchens aren't any different from anywhere else. According to a recent MSNBC report, the International Trade Union Confederation has asserted that women still, forty years after the consciousness-raising era of "Women's Lib," make 74 cents for every dollar a man makes, overall (it gets worse when they have children). That is to say: for women, restaurant kitchens are no worse, and in some cases better, than the average workplace.
Anyone else have a sudden urge to flambé a bra?
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7-02-2010 @2:21PM V said... Yeah, because equal pay for equal work is so "radical."
Whatever.
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7-07-2010 @11:18AM mick said... we should all go on strike. all of us: public workers, home workers, care workers...we should pick a day, and all females take the day off of whatever and stay in bed and watch the world fall apart on the news....
would give mother's day a whole new meaning.
7-09-2010 @8:38PM Laura said... I'm disgusted but not surprised at the disparity in pay. Women get little respect in most restaurant kitchens.
However, the fact that women are underrepresented in both the executive chef category and the James Beard Awards is simply because there are a lot fewer women than men willing to work the dirty, exhausting, low-paying job of cook for the years it takes to become a chef. I know; I was one.
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