HUMAN RESORCE

MANAGEMENT

GLASS CEILING
UNDERSTANDING BARRIERS TO GENDER AND
MINORITIES INEQUALITY

Made by:
Aditya Aman Singh(0191BBA062)
Dev Rohilla(0191BBA074)
Sagar(0191BBA096)
Sumath Marwah(0191BBA111)
Anuj Agarwal(0191BBA068)
 What is Glass ceiling?
Glass ceiling is a metaphor for the evident but
intangible hierarchical impediment that prevents
minorities and women from achieving elevated
professional success.
EFFECT OF GLASS CEILING
Earning less than men who do the
same job
Being treated as incompetent
Experiencing microaggressions
regularly
Receiving less support than men
who do the same job
Missing out on important career
opportunities
Feeling isolated
Not receiving a promotion
Getting rejected from a job
Women during WORLD WARS and SUFFARGATE
MOVEMENT
THE "RIGHTFUL" PLACE
When men went to fight the war, women at FOR WOMEN AS COOKS,
home took all kind of jobs from farming to MAIDS AND
fixing cars, taxi drivers, they worked as clerks, HOUSEWIVES, WAS
they worked in factories, helped in production ADVERTITISED THROUGH
of warfare needs. POSTERS AND RADIO
AFTER END OF WORLD
Social commentators worried that when men
WAR.
returned from military service there would be no
jobs available for them, and admonished women A M A J O R S O C I A L
to return to their "rightful place" in the home as BARRIER FOR WOMEN
soon as victory was at hand. TO BREAK THROUGH
women were laid off in large numbers at the GLASS CEILING.
end of the war.
 Women during WORLD WARS and SUFFARGATE
MOVEMENT
Women’s suffrage, also called woman suffrage, the right of
women by law to vote in national or local elections.

Although the
movement was
non
violent,sometim
es violence
erupted. leaders
were put in
prison several
circa 1912
times(more
than 5 terms)
Liberals women treated as menatlly ill
 CAUSE OF GLASS
CEILING
Lack of Clear Role Models
Psychological Differences
Lack of Organizational or Political will to support Women
Unconscious Bias
Family Roles
Lack of education
Patriarchal society
and
Crimes against women like sexual harrasment,
domestic violence,female infanticide.
The glass ceiling has negative effects on women as they lose their interest
in organisational leadership and organisational commitment. Overt effects
of the glass ceiling affect the effectiveness of management styles since biases
and gender imbalances are present in the decision making processes.
 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER GAP AND GLASS CEILING

The Global Gender Gap Index examines the gap between men
and women across four fundamental categories (subindexes):
Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment,
Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.

Some of the indicators of gender gap are:

Literacy rate
Enrolment in primary education
Legislators, senior officials and managers
Sex ratio at birth
Number of female heads of state to date
Mean age of women at birth of first child
Length of maternity/patenity leave
Public childcare expenditure
Health & Welfare
Wage equality for similar work
these are some of the indicators of many used to find the
GENDER GAP INDEX .
These indicators directy effect gender equality.
 Ways to combat glass ceiling
Promote work–life balance Exploit the pull factor

Enterprises with a woman as

In the digital era, companies need to be more
proactive than ever about dismantling the culture
the board chair are also
of constant availability. more likely to achieve gender
balance across all
management levels and
departments. This pull factor
Ensure policy buy-in is key to repairing the leaky
pipeline.

Policies can’t fix everything, but they

are an excellent place to start
redressing gender imbalance.
But without buy-in from managers,
policies gather dust in drawers. Training
for managers is crucial to ensuring that
policies become workplace realities.
 Ways to combat glass ceiling

Start by assessing how diverse

your company is and identifying
which demographics are
noticeably absent from your
company. Document this by
department, team and seniority
levels to help you set goals
based on the facts.

driving out harassment and

discrimination from within the
organization improves productivity,
boosts morale and shows female
employees that they are valued
members of the team.
PROBLEM BEYOND GLASS CEILING
ANYTIME-ANYWHERE CULTURE
In both high- and low- income countries, women
still perform the majority of domestic labour and
care work at home, even when they are also
employed in full-time paid work.

Many businesses run on a culture of constant

availability, where employees are expected to work
overtime, take calls out of hours, and answer emails
on days off as a matter of course.
This makes it very difficult for women to effectively
compete with male colleagues and rise through the
ranks, as they continue to juggle family
responsibilities with career priorities.
THE GLASS WALL
The glass wall refers to the
phenomenon of occupational
segregation where female
managers tend to be
concentrated in business
support functions, such as HR,
finance and administration. In
such roles, women have limited
decision-making power or
strategic input, and therefore
limited opportunities to rise in
the company.
THE LEAKY PIPELINE
The proportion of women tends to decline as
the level of management increases, meaning
that men continue to dominate chief
executive positions and boards.

When women are not present in the highest

positions in business, they lack the influence
to alter the workplace culture and so the
vicious cycle of male dominance continues.

As long as women are under-represented in

decision-making roles, the pipeline will
continue to leak. Companies with female
CEOs are more likely to have women in
strategic management roles.
 "FIRST" WOMEN ACHIVERS IN
INDIA

"Savitribai Phule carried an

extra saree because trolls of
that time would pelt her
with dung & stones for
breaking caste & gender
barriers to get educated &
to educate the
marginalised. Her
resistance paved the way
for the education we take
for granted today,"
Pioneer of modern Indian
art.
I can only paint in India.
Europe belongs to
Picasso, Matisse, and
Braque. India belongs
only to me.
— Amrita Sher-Gil
 "FIRST" WOMEN ACHIVERS IN
INDIA

She founded the Ahmedabad Textile

Labour Association, India's oldest
union of textile workers, in 1920,
becoming the first female leader of a
trade union in India.
An episode of sexual harassment on a
public road in her late teens triggered
Seema Rao to toughen up and learn to
defend herself through martial art. She
went on to achieve a black belt in
Taekwondo and Krav Maga, and 8th
degree black belt in military martial arts.
 "FIRST" WOMEN ACHIVERS IN
INDIA

Gita Gopinath- Chief

Falguni Nayar -CEO of "SHOOTER DADI" economist of IMF.
nykaa she and her sister started First woman and second
shooting in their 60's. and Indian to hold the position.
breaking the age
has won combined of more
barrier to achieve her
than 50 medals.
dream
 ta-ta

Made by:
Aditya Aman Singh(0191BBA062)
Dev Rohilla(0191BBA074)
Sagar(0191BBA096)
Sumath Marwah(0191BBA111)
Anuj Agarwal(0191BBA068)