What Role Do Women Play In The Organizational Hierarchy?
In the last decade or so, women have made significant progress in obtaining responsible positions in organizations. Among the reasons for this development are laws governing fair employment practices, changing societal attitudes toward women in workplace, and the desire of companies to project a favorable image by placing qualified women in managerial positions. Some evidence suggests that women do have difficulty making it to the job. For example, there are no women on the way to the chief executive officer’s job in the Fortune 500 corporations. Discrimination has been given as one reason, according to Fortune article. On the other hand Marisa Bellisario, is one of the most successful executive in Italy, with the press calling her ” lady computer” and “the manager in jeans” (she occasionally wears jeans at work). In fact companies such as IBM, AT&T, and GTE Corporation have unsuccessfully tried to recruit her. Another success story involves the internationally oriented Ellen Hancock,
