Glass Ceiling Research Paper

BACKGROUND

Women and minorities encounter invisible barriers to promotion and are often prevented from obtaining business leadership positions. The small percentage of women and minority chief executive officers and board members attests to the fact that there may be such a barrier, a so-called glass ceiling, at the top of the corporate ladder.

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LOOK UNDER THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS IN THE CATALOG (CARD OR COMPUTER)

Women executives—United States

Discrimination in employment

Sex discrimination in employment—United States

Sex roles in the work environment

Women—Employment—United States

REFERENCE MATERIALS THAT MAY HELP (BOOKS OR CD-ROMS)

CQ Almanac

CQ Researcher, October 29, 1993.

Editorials on File, Facts on File.

Facts on File

Trager, Oliver, ed. Sexual Politics in America, 1994.

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Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature

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WILSONDISC

ONLINE DATABASES TO SEARCH

America Online

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Internet

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KEY WORDS AND DESCRIPTORS FOR PERIODICAL INDEX AND ONLINE SEARCHES

Glass ceiling

Discrimination in employment

Working women

Women executives

Women in the workforce

Sex discrimination against women

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTACT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., 2012 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

U.S. Glass Ceiling Commission, Department of Labor, C/O Women’s Bureau, 200 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

SUGGESTIONS FOR NARROWING THIS TOPIC

Discuss ways in which women are prevented from advancing in employment.

Discuss women clergy and the “stained glass ceiling.”

Investigate the findings of the Glass Ceiling Commission (1991).

SUGGESTIONS FOR RELATED TOPICS

Affirmative action programs

Age discrimination in employment

Equal pay for equal work

Sexual harassment

Women’s rights movement

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