The dominant paradigm that frames the challenges women face in attaining upward mobility
has been the glass ceiling metaphor. However, over the last decades women have made …

Trends of female access to and presence in responsible governmental positions have
gained substantial attention. The research reported here assesses and seeks convergence …

In recent decades, representative bureaucracy has been a core area of interest, both in
theory and in practice, in public administration. The focus on representative bureaucracy is …

The percentage of women working in Information Technology (IT) is falling as revealed by
the 2003 Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) Blue Ribbon Panel on …

Our analysis represents the first attempt by scholars to link school district teacher, principal,
and administration gender composition to a measure of school district new hires to assess …

“Glass walls,” or patterns of male/female segregation by job type, have been found in
federal, state, and local government employment. Research shows women are more often …

Previous research on gender-based inequality in public-sector state-level bureaucracies
finds evidence of glass ceilings and glass walls; however, previous research does not …

Many scholars have offered explanations as to why women are underrepresented at all
levels of government. Conventional wisdom states that fewer women are in public office due …

We examine US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (2002–2014) to assess
the representation of women at different occupational levels in US public school districts. As …

This article examines Taiwanese American professionals' interpretations of the glass ceiling
to illuminate the manifestations of structural inequality at the micro-level of social life. Data …