Breaking the glass ceiling: Analyzing gender stereotypes and bias in contemporary work environments

The issue of gender equality in employment has given rise to numerous policies in advanced industrial countries, all aimed at tackling gender discrimination regarding recruitment, salary and promotion. However, these policies have tremendously failed to make much of a headway to address a crucial issue at hand. And it has been observed that varying degree of workplace discriminations are handed out to women because of their gender. Yet gender inequalities in the workplace persist. The purpose of this study is to understand, analyses and evaluate the gender bias at workplace/ organizations. Moreover, the study makes a novel attempt to understand as why despite of the initiatives and interventions, the issues is yet to get resolved. The current study adopts a descriptive approach to exhibit the various discriminations meted out to women at the workplace. The study has extensive drawn from secondary sources of literature and an attempt has been made to provide a thorough insight on the issue of gender stereotypes and how it results in discrimination of women. The study is unique in a sense as despite multiple initiatives and policies still the issues loom large. Hence, the study makes a holistic attempt to understand as the root cause of the problem. Despite numerous policies women are facing discrimination at the workplace. The major reasons for the same is the mindset of the society which will take some time change. Moreover, one of the major findings is that women are still lacking the respect in the society.