WEEK 3: The Glass Ceiling Then and Now
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 6 in in Understanding the Psychology of Diversity (Blaine & Brenchley, 2021). Then, read the results of the 1995 Glass Ceiling Commission Report Good for Business: Making Full Use of the Nations Human CapitalLinks to an external site. (pp. 12 to 20), and the McKinsey and Company report Women in the Workplace 2021 OverviewLinks to an external site..
The federal Glass Ceiling Act was enacted in 1991 and codified as Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. It established a commission to study the purported glass ceiling that kept women and minorities out of desirable positions in the workforce. The Glass Ceiling Commission’s report was published in 1995, validating the existence of significant barriers that prevented women and minorities from obtaining increasingly higher levels of authority and responsibility in organizations.
In 2021, McKinsey and Company published Women in the Workplace 2021. Findings from this study, published more than 25 years after the original Glass Ceiling report, show similarities in the obstacles to progress for women in the workplace.
In an initial post of at least 350 words and citing at least two required resources,
- Discuss what kind of progress has been made in the 25+ years since the Glass Ceiling report was published.
- Describe the advances in equal access in the workplace for women.
- Identify ways women of color have not been advantaged as fully as White women by these advances in equal access.
- Discuss circumstances in which diversity initiatives that support women’s access to desirable jobs in the workplace have stalled.
- Analyze how sexism contributes to the continued challenges women face in the workplace.
- Provide evidence of how social identity and gender roles contribute to the glass ceiling for women.
- Describe how implicit bias on the part of organizational leaders contributes to the glass ceiling effect for women.
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