A new Sri Lankan hotel on the shores of Lake Kandalma has a unique selling point --its staff are exclusively women. The Amba Yaalu Hotel, which opened in January, is the first of its kind in the country and is designed to promote women in a tourism sector where men hold up to 90 percent of hotel jobs. "This is a good opportunity for women to demonstrate their talents, to showcase our skills and courage to the new generations," says Upeka Ekanayake who works at the hotel as a chef.
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00:00I tell that this is a good opportunity for women to demonstrate their talents
00:29as to showcase our skills and courage to the new generations as well as to the world.
00:43Unfortunately, Sri Lanka in the hotels, there is gender equality there, nothing like that.
01:05Less than 10% work in hotel industry, especially in the villages like this.
01:35They have been used to work around male colleagues so that automatically they will wait for someone
01:42else to do because that is how they have trained their system.