Thousands of talented women now graduate from business schools and hold substantive middle-management jobs at major corporations. However, a research about the leadership of 2000 top performing companies all over the world found out that only 29 (1.5%) of those CEOs were women, an even smaller percentage than on the Fortune 500 Global list (2.6%). In the top 100 rankings you can only find one women, Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay. (H. Ibarra et al., 2009)
http://hbr.org/web/extras/100ceos/1-jobs
Below you find a video about a U.S survey about the glass ceiling, which refers to the phenomenon that women get blocked to be promoted as a top manager. Why aren’t there more women in top management positions?
http://hbr.org/web/extras/100ceos/1-jobs
Below you find a video about a U.S survey about the glass ceiling, which refers to the phenomenon that women get blocked to be promoted as a top manager. Why aren’t there more women in top management positions?
Women still have to fight against the “glass ceiling” theory. The glass ceiling theory asserts that women managers’ careers are blocked more often than men’s (Simpson, 2000)
ReplyDeleteIbarra et al. (2009) states that women still aren't treated as equals to men when it comes to high stakes positions.
ReplyDeleteWomen are more likely than men to be appointed to top jobs in poorly performing companies, also referred to as the “glass cliff” theory (Haslam, 2008)
ReplyDeleteWomen want a proper relationship between family and work, that is why they choose for part-time jobs instead of full time jobs. With part time jobs the chances of entering into top management positions are small.
ReplyDeleteWomen do not have the ambition to be in a top management position. Many, many women work at least as hard as men. But the disturbing truth is that most women don't compete as hard as most men.
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