The Glass Ceiling – An Impact on Female Workforce

Women in the field of working arena have witnessed a lot of progress, yet they remain underrepresented and below par in the upper rung of the organizational positions. This thwarts their capability to be an incumbent of the higher income category in the earnings distribution of an organization. This is a concept commonly referred to as the “Glass Ceiling.” The prevalence of gender differences in the psychological attributes of women has become a major cause of inconsonance between the potential of women in terms of work efficiency and the emoluments they receive respectively. Glass Ceiling is one of the most compelling metaphors used to analyze the inequalities between men and women at a workplace. The present study lays emphasis on the pertinence of these gender differences in the psychological traits of women in the field of work environment. The paper also highlights the possible countervailing forces (both at work and at home) that may explain why work-family considerations are important to the phenomenon of glass ceiling. Falling under the category of gender discrimination, Glass Ceiling is a practice meted out to the women folk in the economic arena, which acts as a barricade to give women their due credit in the upper echelons of an organizational hierarchy. The present paper will try to make a precise effort to explain the phenomenon of glass ceiling as an instrument of gender discrimination, and its influence on the female workforce.