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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Barriers to Advancement"”.
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Certified Athletic Trainers' Perceptions of Gender Equity and Barriers to Advancement in Selected Practice Settings
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if gender and/or practice setting were related to certified athletic trainers' perceptions of gender equity and specifically to barriers to professional advancement by women. This study was used to examine the perceptions of gender equity as viewed by …
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Perceptions of the Glass Ceiling Effect in Community Colleges
The purpose of this study was to determine the existence of a glass ceiling effect within community colleges by examining faculty, staff and administrator's perceptions of a glass ceiling as it relates to the advancement of women at their institutions. This was done by using a cross-sectional …
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Succession planning strategies to attract partners at professional services firms
As the struggle to attract, engage and develop talent in knowledge intensive firms increases, this paper sought to uncover succession-planning strategies professional services firms may employ to attract Chartered Accountants to partnership. Designed as an organizational action research study, this …
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Off The Glass: The Ritchie Campbell Case Study and The Blackness Project
… of African Americans in the media creates barriers to advancement within our society and leads to systemic forces that hinder African Americans as a whole. I will argue how the mass incarceration of African Americans due to these policies prove to have long term effects on the African …
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Leadership Achievement in Healthcare: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Voices and Experiences of Black Women Leaders
… internal and external forces of which continue to be led in a traditional dominant culture leadership hierarchy. White males, the dominant culture in healthcare hierarchy, hold the greatest percentages of health system C-suite and senior vice-president positions. While the majority of the …
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Female leaders in commercial real estate : to the women following in their footsteps
… real estate, women are not as likely as men to achieve senior-level executive positions. Commercial real estate has been slow to change in terms of achieving gender parity, and though improvements have been made in the status of women in leadership positions, gender-based disparity still …
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Politics and the Glass Ceiling in American Law Enforcement: Why Not More Women Chiefs of Police?
… departments in the United States, only 200 to 250 have women chiefs. Such under-representation reflects the "glass ceiling" effect of a gender-based metaphorical barrier that prevents women from rising to the top of an organization, regardless of qualifications. The research examined three …
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Why do White men ride the glass escalator?
Women face barriers to advancement in male-dominated fields (Glass Ceiling) and in female-dominated fields (Glass Escalator). More research is needed to elucidate the causes of these barriers in order to reduce the negative effects on women’s advancement. This study attempted to broaden the …
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Comparisons of employment barriers between visible minority and Anglo-Saxon women in different occupations
Minority groups tend to face disproportionately higher rates of unemployment, underemployment and restricted job mobility than non-minority groups. In recognition of the inequalities borne by these groups in the labour force, Judge Rosalie Abella produced a report iterating the most “efficient, …