Glass Labyrinth In The Workplace
This paper will discuss the many challenges that women faced in the workforce. There are not many women occupying the highest rank position in an organization, and those that are fortunate to hold a position there finds it very difficult to break the glass ceiling. This paper will further discuss why this is so, it will give a brief definition of glass labyrinth and glass ceiling, it will focus on transformational and transactional leadership, and it will also discuss management interventions that will support women’s success in the future.
As stated earlier, women have a very difficult time trying to break the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling are obstacles that prevents women and people from the lower working class to move up on the mobility …show more content…
This then in turn would give men the upper had since they fill the majority of the high ranked positions. Glass labyrinth is where one finds many challenges and obstacles that they must observed, confront and defeat in order to find them self at their desired position. This might be a long and hard journey. The similarities between glass ceiling and glass labyrinth is that they both restrict women for higher achievement in the business cooperation world. They deliberate build barriers that stops them from becoming leaders or a part of the leader’s board. Therefore, causing them to be stagnant at any positions below CEO’s and board of directors. The differences between glass ceiling and glass labyrinth is; the glass ceiling was set in place by men to stop women from becoming leaders. According to the Harvard Business Review, “Nixon said, I don’t think a woman should be in any government job whatsoever...mainly because they are erratic. And emotional. Men are erratic and emotional, too, but …show more content…
In the article the prime minister of Canada states that, “I don’t have a traditionally female way of speaking.... I’m quite assertive. If I didn’t speak the way I do, I wouldn’t have been seen as a leader. But my way of speaking may have grated on people who were not used to hearing it from a woman. It was the right way for a leader to speak, but it wasn’t the right way for a woman to speak. It goes against type.” (Resistance to women’s leadership, pg. 3). It is saddening that women aren’t able to be successful without having a male’s aspect and attributes being attached to
As stated earlier, women have a very difficult time trying to break the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling are obstacles that prevents women and people from the lower working class to move up on the mobility …show more content…
This then in turn would give men the upper had since they fill the majority of the high ranked positions. Glass labyrinth is where one finds many challenges and obstacles that they must observed, confront and defeat in order to find them self at their desired position. This might be a long and hard journey. The similarities between glass ceiling and glass labyrinth is that they both restrict women for higher achievement in the business cooperation world. They deliberate build barriers that stops them from becoming leaders or a part of the leader’s board. Therefore, causing them to be stagnant at any positions below CEO’s and board of directors. The differences between glass ceiling and glass labyrinth is; the glass ceiling was set in place by men to stop women from becoming leaders. According to the Harvard Business Review, “Nixon said, I don’t think a woman should be in any government job whatsoever...mainly because they are erratic. And emotional. Men are erratic and emotional, too, but …show more content…
In the article the prime minister of Canada states that, “I don’t have a traditionally female way of speaking.... I’m quite assertive. If I didn’t speak the way I do, I wouldn’t have been seen as a leader. But my way of speaking may have grated on people who were not used to hearing it from a woman. It was the right way for a leader to speak, but it wasn’t the right way for a woman to speak. It goes against type.” (Resistance to women’s leadership, pg. 3). It is saddening that women aren’t able to be successful without having a male’s aspect and attributes being attached to