Female Employment in the Top Management: Women, who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling

Year 2022, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 59 - 74, 18.04.2023

Gönül Alkan Fatma Hepsağ

https://doi.org/10.56203/iyd.1221503

Abstract

With the Industrial Revolution, women, who started to be employed for wages, started to take a more active place in the business world with globalization. The sole thing that does not change in the constantly developing and changing business world from the Industrial Revolution to the present is the perspective to women. Women are viewed as cheap labor and the jobs they can do are determined by society. Women, make up half percent of the world’s population were excluded from managerial duties. Barriers to women's access to top positions in business life are named as the glass ceiling. In this research, women working in the top management of BIST companies in Turkey and going beyond the glass ceiling were researched.
Systematic scanning, which involves the process of searching different data sources by using certain keywords or separators for a certain time period to find an answer to a research question, is generally used to define the current situation. This study is carried out to identify the women managers who work in managerial positions in the companies traded in Borsa Istanbul. In order to determine the status of women in management, the distribution of the research data obtained through systematic scanning was determined and visualized.

Keywords

Female manager, glass ceiling, women in senior management, female’s employment

TÜRKİYE’DE ÜST YÖNETİMDE KADIN İSTİHDAMI: CAM TAVANI AŞANLAR

Abstract

Sanayi Devrimiyle birlikte ücret karşılığında istihdam edilmeye başlayan kadınlar küreselleşmeyle iş dünyasında daha aktif şekilde yer almaya başlamışlardır. Sanayi Devriminden günümüze kadar sürekli gelişen ve değişen iş dünyasında değişmeyen tek şey kadına bakış açısıdır. Kadın ucuz iş gücüdür ve yapabileceği işler toplum tarafından belirlenmiştir. Dünya nüfusunun yarısını oluşturan kadınlar yönetsel görevlerin dışında tutulmuştur. Kadınların iş yaşamında üst düzey görevlere gelmesinin önündeki engeller cam tavan olarak ifade edilmektedir. Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de cam tavanı aşarak BİST şirketlerinde üst yönetimde görev alan kadınlar araştırılmıştır.
Bir araştırma sorusuna cevap bulmak için farklı veri kaynaklarının belirli zaman aralığı, belirli anahtar kelime ya da ayraçlar kullanılıp kısıtlanarak taranması işlemini içeren sistematik tarama genellikle mevcut durumun tanımlanması için kullanılmaktadır. Bu çalışma Borsa İstanbul’da işlem gören şirketlerde, yönetsel pozisyonlarda görev yapan kadın yöneticileri belirlemeye yöneliktir. Kadınların yönetimde bulunma durumlarının tespit edilmesi amacıyla sistematik tarama ile elde edilen araştırma verilerinin dağılımları belirlenerek görselleştirilmiştir.

Keywords

Kadın yöneticiler, cam tavan, üst yönetimde kadın, kadın istihdamı

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