Abstract

Aim: The perception there is a glass ceiling in health workers may negatively affect the motivation and performance of workers. Not only has this study aimed to investigate the glass ceiling perceptions of health workers, but also it is aimed to investigate whether the glass ceiling perception is significantly different according to various demographic variables. Material and Method: The universe and sample of the research consist of 500 and 150 health workers working in public hospital in İzmir, respectively. Participants were haphazardly accessed using the distribute-collect survey method. Frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation measures were used to identify the data. Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H tests were used in the hypothesis tests. As a result of factor and reliability analysis, it is understood the measurement tool is valid and reliability level of it is found to be high. Results: The glass ceiling perception of health workers was moderate. The perception was significantly different according to the sex, and no relation was found between it and other variables. This finding shows that there was a difference in the glass ceiling perception between men and women. The perception of women related to glass ceiling was higher than men. Conclusion: Striving the mentality based on the discrimination between women and men, which is an important barrier to the achievement of career goals for health workers, may be effective.

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