Abstract:

In today’s information age organizations, human power and machine power have left the place of production to information-based power. In this context, the competitive advantage that qualified intellectual capital accumulation will provide with the increased loss of gender-based discrimination on employment has not created the same positive impact on women’s management rates while increasing women’s employment rates. The reasons why women are not able to rise to the management positions are explained by various organizational, social and individual career obstacles, but there is no effective solution proposed on the subject, the unvaccinated career obstacles and the low women’s management rates continue to be a problem area that keeps up to date. On the other hand, the foundation of the gender-based barriers women encounter in the work life is based on society, the cultural values that society possesses, and the mentality of the individuals who are educated with this culture from this society, the problem when approached to the subject is that socialism is transformed into behavior in individuals. Creating awareness of this mindset is the primary importance of research. The study first addressed the career obstacles that women encounter in their work life in theoretical framework. In the application section of the study, the statistical analysis of the data obtained in the survey work on the total of 200 men and women managers working in an educational institution operating in the public sector in the province of Eskişehir has been evaluated. The analysis of the data obtained through the survey application was carried out through the SPSS 22.0 program. The data obtained; the t-test, the ANOVA test and the Sidak Multi Comparison test were applied. The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability ratio for the research scale was 0.94. This is an indication that the scale is quite reliable. Factor analysis has also been applied in order to test the validity of the scale.As a result, it has been found that female participants present a traditional attitude by incorporating their perceptions of social gender roles, while men present a more equal attitude in this regard. However, it has also been seen that men have this equal attitude as they go out to the management stages. There have been significant differences between the size of the total gender variable. It has been found that women’s employees’ attitudes towards women’s managers are in a negative direction. The women’s leaders, in order not to be excluded in the senior levels of the male government, have adopted male behaviors and have shown negative attitudes toward female behaviors. Because of women’s domestic responsibilities and male dominant decision-making mechanisms, they have been distant from their senior management stages, but their attitudes towards their career development have been positive as their educational levels and status rise. It has also been identified negative stereotypes created by low-level, single male workers against women’s career development.

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