A study of glass ceiling in it sector of Mumbai City, Maharashtra (With Special Reference to Women Work-Force)

"The Glass Ceiling" refers to an invisible barrier that limits the level to which a woman or another member of a demographic minority can advance within the hierarchy in an organization. In general, it is an attitudinal or organizational bias, which prevents women from occupying leadership positions in organizations. “Ceiling” stresses the limitation of upward progress of women is subjected to and “Glass” refers to the fact that through the limitation is apparently not written in any rule book, it is nevertheless a defeated fact understood by both the sexes. The glass ceiling metaphor has often been used to describe invisible barriers ("glass") through which women can see elite positions but cannot reach them ("ceiling"). These barriers prevent large numbers of women and ethnic minorities from obtaining and securing the most powerful, prestigious, and highest-grossing jobs in the workforce (wiki, 2015).

However looking at India's 113th rank out of 157 countries in terms of Gender Development Index (May 2010), it seems India has to go a long way to realize the dream of gender equality. While on one hand India has examples of Chanda Kochhar, Shikha Sharma, Naina Lal Kidwai and Kalpana Morparia who made it to the top in their fields; on other hand there's volumes of literature depicting Glass Ceiling in one form or another. The present study is an attempt to investigate the presence of Glass Ceiling in IT Sector of Mumbai City.