ABSTRACT

"The Glass Ceiling" refers to an invisible barrier that limits the level to which a woman or another member of a demographic minority can advance within the hierarchy in an organization. In general, it is an attitudinal or organizational bias, which prevents women from occupying leadership positions in organizations. “Ceiling” stresses the limitation of upward progress of women is subjected to and “Glass” refers to the fact that through the limitation is apparently not written in any rule book, it is nevertheless a defeated fact understood by both the sexes. The glass ceiling metaphor has often been used to describe invisible barriers ("glass") through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them ("ceiling"). These barriers prevent large numbers of women and ethnic minorities from obtaining and securing the most powerful, prestigious, and highest-grossing jobs in the workforce (wiki, 2015).