Gender, Attitudes towards Women, Work-Family Conflict and the Glass Ceiling in a Corporate Environment

Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Raghavan, Chemba

Keywords

Gender, Glass Ceiling, Work-Family Conflict

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

Attitudes towards women, work-family conflict and the glass ceiling in a corporate environment were investigated using the following instruments: 1) The Attitudes Towards Women Scale (Spence, Helmrich & Stapp, 1978) 2) The Work-Family Conflict Scale (Carlson, Kacmar & Williams, 2000) and 3) The Barriers to Job Mobility Questionnaire which is based on a study of female managers experiences (Schuck & Liddle, 2004). Participants included employees in the state of Florida from the corporate offices of a large beverage retail company in three locations across the state. Results indicated that men and women in this sample did not differ in their attitudes towards women, or in their perceptions of work-family conflict. Men and women differed in their perceptions of the glass ceiling. Additionally, overall attitudes towards women were highly correlated with perceptions of the glass ceiling.

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