Career management problems of woman: A case study on the glass ceiling syndrome

Today, women participates in business and working life increasingly, however they fail to find place in managerial staff for themselves. There are variety of reasons that cause this condition and it is expressed as the result of studies that women forced to work under a glass ceiling which they can't go beyond. Glass ceiling represents insurmountable and unobtrusive obstacles that is between women and senior management which prevent women's progress regardless of the success of women in working life. This study focuses on the concept of glass ceiling syndrome and features and the existence of glass ceiling syndrome within the scope of obstacles in front of women's entrepreneurship and management in Turkey. According to this study which is realized in order to determine the views and proposals based on the issue of obstacles in front of women in raising to senior executive positions; there are differences between people's attitudes toward managers and gender, age, number of children, the level of education.