{"id":221,"date":"2016-04-03T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-04-04T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T07:03:18","slug":"article-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/2016\/04\/03\/article-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Empress Hotel gets first female manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/travel\/Victoria+Empress+Hotel+gets+first+female+manager\/11809538\/story.html\">&#8220;Victoria&#8217;s Empress Hotel gets first female manager: Indu Brar will oversee effort to create \u2018the best luxury resort in the Pacific Northwest&#8221;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The Vancouver Sun (March 25, 2016)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indu Brar is the first woman appointed as general manager of the 108-year-old Fairmont Empress Hotel, which is undergoing a major renovation slated to be completed in spring 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Brar started her new job two weeks ago, moving from the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver where she served as general manager for 2\u00bd years and oversaw its renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Men outnumber women in senior management positions in the hotel sector, Powell said. \u201cIt\u2019s not 50-50, but there are a lot more (women) than there used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brar jumped at the chance to manage the historic Empress, calling it \u201ca once in a lifetime opportunity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Victoria&#8217;s Empress Hotel gets first female manager: Indu Brar will oversee effort to create \u2018the best luxury resort in the Pacific Northwest&#8221; The Vancouver Sun (March 25, 2016) Indu Brar is the first woman appointed as general manager of the 108-year-old Fairmont Empress Hotel, which is undergoing a major renovation slated to be completed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1610849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-of-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vswarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}