Is there any ideal place for women workers? women and glass ceiling: a multi-cultural view
Abstract
The restrictions that keep women from climbing the corporate ladder are the main theme of this research paper. Glass ceiling is identified and highlighted as an important and global issue not only by different women around the world but also from the different researchers and scholars and may have very negative impact on business and societies. This research focuses the glass ceiling which may restrict women especially from the top positions. This research paper will try to reflect multicultural view of glass ceiling and scale of its existence in different regions of the globe. The nature of this paper is empirical whereas in order to perform multicultural empirical analysis we selected three companies from different parts of the world, and studied their cases. With the help of carefully designed questionnaire the company officials are contacted, and their responses are analyzed in the light available literature and theoretical perspectives. On the basis of careful analysis conclusion has been drawn which lead to valuable suggestions which are presented at the end. The underlying suggestions would help to cope with the issue in better way.
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