Hotels set aside floors for women

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-12-10 18:52

Story here. Excerpt:

'Book a room on the 11th floor of the Hamilton Crowne Plaza here, and you'll get special bath salts and body products, a magnifying mirror, nail polish, nail files and a curling iron.

In other words, you'll get pretty much anything you need to pamper yourself.

They're not exactly the types of amenities that men would go for, but that's the point.

The Hamilton Crowne Plaza is one of a small, but growing number of hotels offering floors dedicated to female travelers. These hotels are particularly trying to appeal to female business travelers, who are moving up the career ladder and hitting the road more often.

"Women are more influenced by their surroundings, and therefore, the ways in which hotels can accommodate them become important," says Judi Brownell, professor of organizational communication at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. "My research identified three things that are important to women business travelers and that influence their decision regarding where to stay: safety; empowerment; and pampering."

Hotels are responding by setting aside floors with special key access and amenities that women typically prefer.'

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'"White people are more influenced by their surroundings, and therefore, the ways in which hotels can accommodate them become important," says Judi Brownell...'

See?

Separate is inherently unequal. If you have to bake "them" a cake, you have to bake "us" a cake, too. Fair's fair...

...unless the class being discriminated against is adult males. Then it's fine.

Hey, do those extra-special rooms have a higher rate? If not, then in essence, everyone at the hotel *not* staying in those rooms is subsidizing those who do. Put 2 and 2 together.

I wonder if a woman traveling alone except for one of her per-adolescent sons can get a room like this one.

Want to let them know what you think? First, the evidence:
http://www.hamiltonhoteldc.com/guest-rooms/:
'Women's Floor
Unique to our Washington DC hotel is a special Women's Floor, catering to the female business traveler. The Women's Floor provides thoughtful amenities to make your stay more comfortable and relaxing.'

Contact form:
http://www.hamiltonhoteldc.com/contact-us/

Phone: 202-682-0111

Let them know you don't support segregation based on indelible characteristics, and if you wanted to live in a society that segregated people by gender, you'd move to a country that had laws requiring it. But in any case, you won't be patronizing their hotel any time soon.

Businesses just *love* it when you tell them you won't buy their stuff. =)

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2013-12-11 03:04