Cultural barriers of women's job promotion

Abstract

Regarding that women form half of world's active population, but they aren't applied equally to manage organizations' affairs. Of course presence of women in work environment have been highly increasing in recent years and it is continuing everyday but their development rate in high level jobs isn't appropriate to numbers of them in organizations. Women face some problems in work environment such as job discrimination and pre-judgment about them is resulted from cultural attitudes of society. Women are of important and valuable capitals in the world countries especially in developing countries. Leaders of organizations should know (that) responding customers' changing market and international competition need to use talent of expert women and men in all levels.This paper explains some problems about women's employment in development manner, cultural space governing women's employment, cultural barriers and attitude present in women's employment and also presents some suggestions to smooth background of women's employment