Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.38190/ope.11.1.12
Women in management positions in a selected county
Rudi Štekl
orcid.org/0000-0002-6879-6207
; European Business School Zagreb
Abstract
The position of women in managerial posts in the public and private sectors is becoming increasingly important in the labor market in the Republic of Croatia. The term “glass ceiling”, used when talking about preventing the advancement of women to higher hierarchical levels in a given workplace, is gaining increasing representation as an important topic. The main goal of this paper is to show the level of position of women, i.e., their representation in local self-government units through research through a survey questionnaire on a sample of 60 city officials of a selected county. This model or the so-called “phenomenon of female gender discrimination” especially dominates in local and regional self-government units, where insufficient inclusion of women in the political spectrum consequently leads to poorer employment status and inability to advance professionally. Although the law on gender equality prohibits gender discrimination in the workplace, the “glass ceiling” still blocks the advancement of women to the highest positions in the system of local self-government units. Other goals of the paper are the identification of obstacles to the advancement of women on the organizational scale and the proposed recommendations for improving the career development of women in this system. The paper presents the findings of the results derived from the research. The role and importance of such issues in society is increasingly expressed precisely in the form of market needs and inclusion of the entire social spectrum. Society determines its future and the level of advancement at which everyone should have equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender, age and race!
Keywords
glass ceiling; position of women; local authority units
Hrčak ID:
258828
URI
Publication date:
11.6.2021.
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