Glass Ceiling Perception on Career Advancement: Women Lecturers, In Indonesia
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https://doi.org/10.17722/ijme.v16i3.1248Keywords:
glass ceiling; non-profit organization; woman career advancementAbstract
The majority of glass ceiling researches was focus only on profit organizations which become a research gap. Glass ceiling is very possible in non-profit organizations such as universities. The aim of the study was to analyse the perceived effect of glass ceiling perception on the career advancement of female lecturers. The populations in this study were 192 female lecturers and 132 samples were taken by using purposive sampling method. The analytical tool is SEM with the Smart-PLS. The results showed that Family factor has no effect on glass ceiling perception, while Individual factors have a significant positive effect on glass ceiling perception. Organizational factors have no effect on glass ceiling perception, Cultural factor has a significant positive effect on glass ceiling perception and Glass ceiling perception has a significant negative effect on woman career advancement
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