Gender discrimination in the workplace remains a challenge, impacting women's career progression, opportunities, and professional experiences. The study aims to explore the problems of female chefs in the tourism industry in Izmir according to gender discrimination. The face-to-face Zoom interview technique was applied to 10 female chefs in Izmir between 15 February 2023 and 20 March 2023. Each interview took 30 minutes. The results reveal that female chefs were exposed to a great deal of emotional discrimination, gender inequality, low wages, verbal, and physical harassment in Izmir. The lack of adequate training for executive chefs was seen as a career barrier for female chefs. Female chefs declared that they found the management of the head chefs and human resource executives weak and inadequate because of overthinking themselves. Due to the lack of education in male chefs, female chefs are less demanding and underpaid.