Gender Barriers to Career Development in an Organization

Abstract

The research is aimed at studying the mechanisms that limit the career opportunities of women is relevant due to persistent gender gap in the economy and in career opportunities sphere. The article presents the description of the structural gender barriers in organizations, known as “glass” phenomena. The author outlines the process of development as well as the results of the approbation of the methodology focused on perceptions of structural gender barriers. All the scales of the methodology have shown perfect internal consistency. The differences in the perceptions of men and women of gender barriers in the organization have been revealed: men rate them lower.