Corporate Glass Ceiling: An Impact on Indian Women Employees Dr. Rathore Sapna Department-Management, Asian Educational Institute, Patiala, PB, India Online published on 31 October, 2017. Abstract Unfortunately, today women are still trying to prove themselves equal to men. Women are often over looked in many industries just due to the fact of being a woman. There are many negative assumptions regarding women. Some examples are: women cannot do a job meant for a man, women cannot work late hours due to children, women are too soft and don't represent a strong leader in a top level position. It's hard to even think that in the 21st century the glass ceiling is continuing to block women from entering and advancing in managerial and supervisory roles. This paper aims at focusing on glass ceiling effect or gender diversity issue in organizations along with cultural biases, gender stereotypes and the approaches that all organizations should take to encourage and promote eligible women in respectful and managerial positions. For the decades, it has been seen that the presence of women in senior managerial positions is very low in spite of having good scholastics, plethora of knowledge, quality and efficiency and this happens only due to the barriers like mental blockage or prejudices and glass ceiling phenomenon. Organizations publish their balance sheets to disclose their financial health and to motivate shareholders as per financial considerations but the invisible balance sheets of human resources are unbalanced from the long past as per gender is concerned and are discouraging our society and women. The findings reveal that the Glass Ceiling and Women Career Development have a moderate negative relationship, and also show that Individual Factors, Organizational Factors and Cultural Factors have a significant effect on Women Career Development whereas Family Factor has effects on the Glass Ceiling. Top Keywords Glass-ceiling, managerial positions, barriers, talent, diversity, India. Top |