Women in the Workforce

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This paper is to be 2 PAGES LONG  (not including a title page/heading or references page), include 3-5 citations from academic sources published as books or journal articles where at least one author must be a woman; nonacademic sources may be used but do not count toward this requirement. The interview should act as the case study and you will use the literature to explain, support, contradict, analyze, etc. what the interviewee says. This is worth 5 points:

Question: why women aren't represented in top level management (the glass ceiling)? Also, talk about the gender wage gap (which includes the glass ceiling effect).

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Running head: WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE

Women in the Workforce
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WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE

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Introduction

Women have, for a long time, been less represented in many top management positions.
This is is probably due to conventional practices that placed women at a lower level than men.
According to Gao, Lin & Ma (2016), in 2012, despite women comprising 47% of the US
workforce, with 51 % of women in management and other related occupations, only 14 % of
were executive officers, and only 4% of CEOs in Fortune 500 firms were women. Women
underrepresentation in top management is ironical given that women can make good decisions
just like men in senior-level management. Kuschel & Salvaj (2018) assert that even though there
have been increased focus on women's participation in executive levels, little has been done to
remedy the situation.
Absence of Women in Top Management
Many factors contribute to the absence of women in top management. The first factor is
the lack of solidarity among w...


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