The Glass Ceiling

Why don’t you ever see women in top positions at big businesses?  I’ll tell you why, it is because men are afraid that women cannot lead a company as well as women can.  Also known as “The glass ceiling”. Women being discriminated in the workplace because men are afraid of giving them a chance is 100% unacceptable.  “In economics, the glass ceiling is "the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements”(https://en.winkipedia.org).   For women this is extremely unfair.  There are so many women that are qualified for the high positions, but in almost every case the men take the positions.

The glass ceiling is this invisible wall that women can never break.  It is a rarity that they get a promotion to a new position that puts them higher up on the board, or have an executive position.  The most women get is a stipend at work for working “X” number of years. “Unfortunately, for many MNC’s, the lack of female expatriate managers may turn into a self-defeating cycle as competent lower-level female managers leave the organization due to lack of opportunity for advancement to higher levels of management and/or the lack of higher-level female managers and mentors…”(www.jstor.org).

  

This is very counterproductive to only make men have higher positions.  Because in the women’s mindset some may think, well if they will never get the cooperate position or manager, why try as hard as the men are because being average is giving the same outcome as doing amazing.  If these positions were open to everyone jobs would thrive because you would have so many more people trying to get that new job that productivity in my opinion would increase dramatically.  Secretly it seems as if men are afraid that there counterpart is going to “show them up” and do a better job they do and decrease the number of men in these higher positions.  It is completely unprofessional to discriminate only because they are women.  Companies will thrive so much more once they realize that women can be just as great of leaders as men are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling

http://sites.psu.edu/civicissuesechevarria/2013/02/21/to-infinity-and-oh-wait-theres-a-glass-ceiling/

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25482350?&Search=yes&searchText=ceiling&searchText=glass&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dthe%2Bglass%2Bceiling%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=20114&returnArticleService=showFullText

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25482350