Executive women from the sticky floor to the glass ceiling.

In the permanent search for a brittle horizon

Abstract

This document analyzes the growing arrival of women in the global labor market. Despite this female migration, there are intangible impediments to women’s access to management positions. These obstacles are known as the glass ceiling. The current organizational discourse seeks
gender equality, although in fact the male attributes of the exercise of power are still favored. For this reason, perhaps we are witnessing the constitution of a fragile horizon for future women in management positions. This career horizon looks like a hazy spot at the end of the road. At first,
unattainable for women because they were linked to fulfilling their family obligations, limiting their incorporation, permanence, and promotion in the labor market (thus tilling the sticky soil). Once acquired, it can be lost by making the slightest mistake. From here his fragile character and his ephemeral permanence are born. To build a theoretical perspective of a descriptive and explanatory nature on this phenomenon, international and national documents and statistics of a public and private nature were consulted.