Obstacles to Employee Women Promoting to High Managerial Levels in Governmental Banks: Staff Viewpoints

The present study is aimedat exploring the obstacles to employee women promoting to high managerial levels in governmental banks، and recognizing the differences in viewpoints of men and women employees. It is a survey-based study، and the data was collected through questionnaires. The statistical population consisted of all men and women employees working at governmental banks; holding Bachelor''s degrees and higher and with at least five years of experience. 400 subjects were drawn as the research sample through multistage cluster sampling. T-test and one-way analysis of variance were used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. The findings of the study show that in all the hypotheses there were significant differences between viewpoints of men and women staff concerning obstacles to women promoting to high managerial levels in governmental banks. Moreover، the results of the study indicate that the variables of dominant organizational culture، women lack of tendency for promotions، and gender stereotypes of the society were seen as the most important obstacles، and women physical and mental features were considered as the least important obstacles.