Özet:

With the active role of women in business life in recent years, the emergence of obstacles to reaching senior positions; brought about gender discrimination. The role of women in the business world is strengthened through legal regulations against gender discrimination, but invisible barriers that prevent their progress and development remain. The mentioned situation is expressed as the glass ceiling syndrome and the place of women in today's business world constitutes an important discussion agenda. The increasing trend of women's employment triggered the curiosity about this issue; the field of accounting has also taken its share from this situation. In this study, it is aimed to make a bibliometric analysis of the studies on the glass ceiling perceptions that female professional accountants have faced during the process of climbing the career ladder. In the accounting literature, domestic and selected foreign works on the glass ceiling perceptions of female accountants between the years 2012-2022 constitute the scope of the study. Qualitative analysis method was adopted in the study. Descriptive content analysis was applied to the studies covered in the research. As a result of the study, it has been determined in the studies carried out in the domestic and foreign literature that women can break the glass ceiling, especially through professional regulations. Based on the results, suggestions were made about integrating behavioral, mental and sensory features into the accounting literature.

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