Dynamics of Public Administration
Year : 2019, Volume : 36, Issue : 1
First page : ( 68) Last page : ( 84)
Print ISSN : 0975-3907. Online ISSN : 0976-0733.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-0733.2019.00007.5

Glass Ceiling on Women in Institutional Mechanism: Triggering and Elevating a Professional Diarchy?

Md. Shadik Shirajis

Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, University of Barishal, Kornokathi, Barishal, Bangladesh. Email id: shirajisshadik@gmail.com, msshadik@bu.ac.bd

Online published on 2 May, 2019.

Abstract

This article aims to uncover how and in what ways glass ceiling on women constitutes a diarchal situation in all the phases of an institutional set-up from planning to implementation. Different studies in recent times have explicated that gender barriers are playing a segregating role in the successes or failures of women in their workplace. Everyone is informed and experienced about plenty of glass ceilings or gender barriers but it is also observed that less attention has been paid into an institutional set-up to discover whether a duality is persisting in there or not. The age-old thinking of women being ineffectual to take ‘serious decisions’ and better to do their ‘jobs only’ rather being the decision making executives yet dwells in our modern institutional arena, although its intensity may vary. So, this study was performed on the working women in different places of Bangladesh to experiment the reality.

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Keywords

Glass ceiling, Institutionalism, Gender barriers, Professional diarchy, Decision making, Women in administration, Gender resistance in organisations.

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