Content Analysis of Women's Management and Job Promotion obstacles (Study case: Tehran Municipality)

The paper aims to analyze the factors prevent women’s job advancement and promotion in organizations. In this study, Qualitative methodology and Directed Qualitative Content Analyze approach were applied, and 16 women of the municipal districts 2, 4, 13, 16, and 22 of Tehran were interviewed during a four-month period from May, 2016 to August, 2016. Repeated reviewing and analyzing written interviews, 85 semantic units, 33 codes, 5 classes, and 2 themes were extracted. Two concepts of (Social-Cultural Requirements), (Role Requirements) were recognized as the research themes and the main factors of preventing women from job promotion. (Social-Cultural Requirements) is related to the factors which are obstacles to women's job promotion, as the forces from society structure. (Role Requirements) is related to the factors which do not prevent job promotion directly, but ruin women personal passion to advancement, by affecting their inner desire. Based on this study, it is concluded, by focusing on Role Requirements, it can be overcome the obstacles to women' job promotion.