“Glass ceiling escalating corporate ladder”: A study of Women Employees with reference to service industries in Marathwada Region

Abstract

Always being treated as a second gender even today in this century, a woman is trying to escalate corporate ladder by proving her potential at work spot. A woman, in every walks of her life, she experiences a glass ceiling from obtaining upper-level positions. Glass Ceiling is the unseen, unbreakable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements. Also it can be said as an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions. Glass ceilings are most often observed in the workplace and are usually a barrier to achieving power and success equal to that of a more dominant population. A common manifestation of this is seen where a woman who has better skills, talent, and education than her male peers but is obviously being passed over for promotions. Or for a woman to get paid lesser for the same job that her male peers are doing despite holding similar qualifications. This research paper was an attempt to study the existence of Glass Ceiling for women employees with reference to service industries in Marathwada Region.