This paper discusses the phenomena of glass ceiling, which affects women's chances obtaining professional jobs, as well its connection to issues equality and equity in regards gender. A literature review several scientific studies that address ceiling is used method writing for this method. The findings indicate "glass ceiling" phenomenon still a barrier women overcome order advance particular ...

The paper studies a sample of natives and 18 immigrant nationalities in the Swedish labor market between 1970 and 1990. The purpose is examining the existence of an immigrant specific glass ceiling. Results suggest a considerable overall advantage in terms of the probability of experiencing upward occupational mobility for native Swedish males. Despite this, the pattern does not correspond to t...

Despite the evidence of female progress with regard to women’s role in the labor market, gender inequality remains. Women are still less likely to be employed than men, occupational gender segregation continues, and females continue to earn less than males. The gender wage gap remains wide in several occupational sectors, among which is the information technology (IT) sector. This paper focuses...

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile regression (QR) techniques to control for the effects of individual and job characteristics at different...

Desde hace años se habla de la existencia de un techo de cristal que dificulta o impide, incluso en los paı́ses desarrollados, el progreso profesional de la mujer y su presencia en los puestos decisivos. Esta metáfora, que representa las barreras no siempre evidentes al desarrollo profesional de las mujeres, la podemos trasladar a nuestro Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) para describir la princip...

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ceiling effect. Using earlier data, we show that the same pattern held at the beginning of the 1990’s but not in the prior two decades. Further, we do not find this pattern either for the log wage gap...