Measuring women's beliefs about glass ceilings: development of the Career Pathways Survey
Measuring women's beliefs about glass ceilings: development of the Career Pathways Survey
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衡量女性对玻璃天花板的看法:职业道路调查的开展
DOI:
10.1108/17542411211214130
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
P. Caputi
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作者:
Paul Smith;Nadia Crittenden;P. Caputi
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new measure called the Career Pathways Survey (CPS) which allows quantitative comparisons of women's beliefs about glass ceilings.Design/methodology/approach – A 34‐item version of the CPS was completed by 243 women from all levels of management, mostly in Australia. An expanded 38‐item CPS was administered to another sample of women (n=307).Findings – Analyses of data from both studies yielded a four factor model of attitudes to glass ceilings: resilience, acceptance, resignation and denial. The factors demonstrated good internal consistency.Practical implications – The CPS allows a comparison of positive attitudes towards seeking promotions via resilience and denial scores, and provides feedback on negative attitudes towards seeking promotions via resignation and acceptance scores.Social implications – This new measure can be recommended for studies of women's and men's attitudes towards gender inequality in organizational leadership. Also, it could pl...