Management 2022 Case Study

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The concept of glass ceiling has negative impact of the gender equity in the
workplaces. According to my analysis (Refer to Appendix 1), 57.89% have claimed that there
is tremendous impact of glass ceiling even today for the female professionals. In order to
evaluate the intensity of the glass ceiling on the modern female professionals, it becomes
important to assess the concept. As per the opinion of Glass and Cook, glass ceiling is the
term which signifies the fact that the minorities do not have entry to certain fields owing to
their gender or in many cases, are prohibited from conducting certain activities for the same
reason. With a close consideration towards the general practice of the term, Sabharwal
mentioned it to be an unknown obstacle which restricts the female professionals from
achieving high ranking job positions. Bertrand, Marianne et al. claimed that the term is
accurate for signifying certain barriers which blocks the female professionals and
discriminated set of people from advancing in their work or moving up. The study delivers a
persuasive argument on the fact that there is still substantial presence of substantial amount of
glass ceiling on the female professionals.
According to the comments of Albrecht, Thoursie and Vroman, the existence of glass
ceiling even in the 21st century is primarily prominent with factors such as unequal pay
structure, gender preferences prior to the identification of the selection criteria, self-
underestimation from the part of the female professionals, being shy of facing organizational
conflict, lack of flexibility along with greater apathy towards the undertaking of the risk.
According to an analysis of Pew Research Centre Analysis, it is found that the gap in pay
owing to the gender, had certainly decreased from the year 1980, however, the gap in the pay
structure has remained same for last 15 years and that certainly shows the existence of a
prominent gap in the wage for the employees of both the gender (Pewresearch.org). As a
result, the existence of the glass ceiling is visible with no sign of decrement of the gap
between the wage characteristics of women and men.