{"id":71490,"date":"2025-05-05T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/05\/from-sri-lanka-to-tanzania-the-pioneering-hotels-run-entirely-by-women"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:00:26","slug":"from-sri-lanka-to-tanzania-the-pioneering-hotels-run-entirely-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71490","title":{"rendered":"From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunities<\/p>\n<p>It took Jeewanthi Adhikari a decade to get the promotion she wanted working in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. For years, she watched as men with less experience were promoted before her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if I got to interview,\u201d says Adhikari, 42, \u201cthe interviewer would be judging me, asking if I might get married, or have children and then suggesting family commitments would take over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/05\/from-sri-lanka-to-tanzania-the-pioneering-hotels-run-entirely-by-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunitiesIt took Jeewanthi Adhikari a decade to get the promotion she wanted working in the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. For years, she wat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,6,59,3295,62,61,674,1457,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-business","category-global-development","category-hospitality-industry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-tanzania","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71491,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71490\/revisions\/71491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}