Abstract:

This study, which was carried out in order to reveal the current status of the glass ceiling syndrome, which was started to be used in the 1970s and prevented women to rise in their business life, was carried out on the employees in the banks operating in the provinces and districts of Adıyaman. The data were collected with a questionnaire applied on 131 bank employees working in the provinces and districts of Adıyaman by simple random sampling method. The reliability of the glass ceiling perception scale used in the study is 0.815. The hypothesis of the study was analyzed by Independent t-Test. H1 hypothesis was accepted as the main hypothesis of the study in 95% confidence interval (p = 0.006 <0.05). According to the results of the study, it is observed that female employees have a low glass ceiling perception, but male employees have a negative perception towards female employees because they have biased discrimination on the basis of gender. Therefore, it has been concluded that the perception of stereotypes of female employees is broken, but the stereotypes of male employees on gender discrimination continue to decrease compared to the past. Although the results obtained in the study were limited to the employees in the province of Adiyaman and the banking sector, the results were compared between the results of the study conducted in our country in the years 2004-2019 in terms of differences and similarities, and information on the tendency of the glass ceiling perception in female and male employees was obtained and recommendations were made.

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