The Influence of Glass Ceiling Effect on Female Career Development---An Example of Higher Executive Females at Hotel Industries

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Mei Wu, 吳秀媚
• Other Authors: Chiou-Shya Torng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50173728221694307937

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 休閒與遊憩學系碩士班 === 94 === It has been a long time, since women entered the workplace. However, this doesn’t mean that they have had equal chance of promotion as men do. According to the investigation done by Executive Yuan, ROC, The number of female employees have reached 3,830,000 by 2001, 25% of them are in the service industries. This shows that the service industry employees are mostly female. In contrast, men are mainly in the higher executive positions. The study aims to explore the influence of the glass ceiling effect on female employees’ promotion. And the results of females encountering the glass ceiling effect are discussed. The study collected data by qualitative interview. The subjects were by convenience and snowball sampling. The subjects in this study were the higher ranking female executives in hotel business. The interview had been from 14th March to 29th March in 2006. There are seven interviewees. They are most between 30~45 years old and the education degrees are mainly on university. Three of the interviewees are married and have baby, four of the interviewees are unmarried or married but have no baby. The conclusions were as follows： (1)The obstacle of government is not the cause of the glass ceiling effect. There are four kind of influence resource in glass ceiling effect, due to no interviewees said that the obstacle of government are the cause the glass ceiling effect, so that is not the cause of the glass ceiling effect. (2)The sex stereotype is a less influential factor for female career development. Most of the female staffs at hotels choose others departments, but they didn’t choose resignation, so that is a less influential factor for female career development. (3)Among all of the personal factors, women childbirth situation has the minimum influence. There were no interviewees resignation by themselves by childbirth situation, so the career development didn’t effect of the women childbirth situation (4)The sex stereotype causes the glass ceiling effect. There are four kind of influence resource in sex stereotype to glass ceiling effect, and sex stereotype would underestimate female executives ability , so the sex stereotype causes the glass ceiling effect. (5)The glass ceiling effect influences the female career development and female career development type. Three of interviewees who ever suffer glass ceiling change the career development and the career development types, so The glass ceiling effect influences the female career development and female career development type.