Abstract:

When referred to as gender inequality at the organizational level, the first-minded group of women workers, only because of being women, are able to experience injustice in their career trips as a result of unfair practice and processes in the organizational life and can face many obstacles while building their careers. A variety of metaphors have been produced in management literature to emphasize these obstacles. The purpose of this aggregation study is to study these metaphors produced in the light of literature against the obstacles women encounter in the organizational life and to evaluate the similarities and differences of these metaphors. In this study, nine metaphors were studied, including "cam roof", "beton roof", "cam walking stairs", "cams tube", "cam wall", "cams floor", "cam door", "Queen Bee syndrome" and "cam hole". The results of the assessment show that the obstacles that female workers face in the organizational life appear in different hierarchical stages and different practices and therefore there is no single metafor that covers all obstacles. Instead, a different metaphor was created for each obstacle. When it comes to the words in the metaphors, it appears that the term "cam" is used to emphasize the obstacles that are not often visible in the produced metaphors but exist. Furthermore, the organization’s organizational structure has been compared to a building and metaphors have been developed through elements belonging to a building, such as “tail”, “door”, “ground”, “wall” and “step”. Metafores are often focused on the obstacles in three applications, including the employment process wage system and promotional mechanisms. However, the obstacles in which the metaphors are developed are faced by women workers with different characteristics and qualities.