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Gender Gap In Workplace Management

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“GENDER GAP IN UPPER MANAGEMENT”

Introduction:
Workplace promotion is a burning issue among women in any given workforce. The representation of women in senior level management is a stark departure from the expectation. Through this project we delve deeper into the issues of promotion of employees and identify the gap in the existing policies or lack of such policies providing equal opportunity to workplace promotion for women.Corporate policies and practices in training and career development, promotion, and compensationare often identified as major components of the glass ceiling that prevent women from making it to the top. The experience that women need in areas such as operations, manufacturing, or marketing is often not offered to young …show more content…

The point of gender bias has been a sensitive issue for many women who report/complain of ineffectiveness in HR policies in curtailing such biases. Our motivation for choosing this topic is attributed to the age long debate of gender discrimination/bias.

As per the recent results, there are only 21 women CEOs among FORTUNE 500 companies. This clearly put a question mark on the existing HR policies concerning workplace promotion and representation of women in senior management level.Explanations for the extremely low numbers ofwomen in the position of Chief ExecutiveOfficer (CEO) and other senior managementpositions go beyond corporate policies andpractices and also embrace the impact of genderbasedbehavioral dynamics. This is especially truein considering subjective explanations that takeinto account the reasons why women are oftennot attracted to senior management positions tobegin with or feel uncomfortable in the positionswhen they have attained them. Women executivesare more likely to cite these subjectivereasons as …show more content…

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This article examines explanations for why women have not risen to the top, including lack of line experience, gender differences in linguistic styles and socialization, inadequate career opportunities, the old boy network at the top, gender-based stereotypes and tokenism.
• Women at the top of corporations: Making it happen [Mckinsey Report]: Women Matter 2010]-
Low importance to gender diversity in company’s strategic agenda and the implementation of dedicated programs remains limited overall.
• Women’s underrepresentation in upper management: New insights on a persistent problem [Jenny M. Hoobler, Grace Lemmon, Sandy J. Wayne]-
In this article the workplace social problem has been recognized as major reason for women’s lack of ascendency to the top jobs.
• Witz, A. and M. Savage: 1992, ‘Theorethical Introduction: The Gender of Organizations’, in A.Witz and M. Savage (eds.), Gender and Bureaucracy (Blackwell Publishers,

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