Posted: Mar 13, 2017
In 1946, when the CIA opened, there was just one woman enrolled in a class of 50.
It’s no secret that the culinary world is a male-dominated field. The restaurant industry, with its long hours and its insufficient benefits, simply hasn’t been a great environment for women, especially after they’ve started a family. But all that could change if a look at the changing gender dynamics at culinary school is any indication. For the first time in the history of the Culinary Institute of America, there are more women than men enrolled, with a 51.6 percent female enrollment.
This is huge, and looks very different than female enrollment when the school first opened. “It has been growing steadily since the college opened in 1946, with one woman in a class of 50,” says Jeff Levine, the media spokesperson for CIA.
Those meager numbers jumped to a little over 20 percent by 1980, which bumped up to a little over 30 percent by 2000. The 2000s have been witness to the biggest jumps of all. By 2006, female enrollment at the CIA was up to nearly 40 percent. And now, 10 years later, it’s over 50. Who knows what the next 10 years will bring?
Dr. Jackie Nealon, the vice president of CIA, thinks this growth is partly because the “women-owned food business is growing at a fast rate, which offers more and more opportunity for women to have a work-life balance.” She also suggests the influence of strong female restaurant role models pave the way for younger aspiring chefs.
We do hope this growing trend means we will see even more trail-blazing female chefs in the food industry. And if more restaurants follow Danny Meyer’s example of offering paid parental leave, that just might become a very tangible reality.
By Julie Thompson
March 13, 2017
Source: Huffington Post
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