Abstract
Why women rarely make it to the top? Reflections on a new study investigating factors inhibiting career advancement of women in Sri Lanka DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljss.v31i1-2.5464 Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 2008/2009 31/32 (1 & 2) 65-67
Highlights
Sri Lanka produced the world’s first female Prime Minister
The fact remains that Sri Lanka has one of the lowest presence of women in the legislative assemblies from the national to the local government levels and relatively lower representation of women in the highest level of bureaucracy and corporate governance in spite of a remarkably high participation of women in higher education
The study marshals a large body of primarily quantitative information collected through a survey conducted among the staff in public and private sector agencies in order to assess the situation with regard to gender distribution in these higher echelons of society and examine why females’ rise to the top has been hampered in spite of notable achievements in some sectors
Summary
Sri Lanka produced the world’s first female Prime Minister. In addition, the fourth executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka was a woman and for a while both the President and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka were women from the same political dynasty. The study marshals a large body of primarily quantitative information collected through a survey conducted among the staff in public and private sector agencies in order to assess the situation with regard to gender distribution in these higher echelons of society and examine why females’ rise to the top has been hampered in spite of notable achievements in some sectors.
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