El techo de Cristal en México

Abstract

The “glass ceiling” is defined as the obstacles that obstruct a woman to achieve high-level positions in organizations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the current situation of women in senior management positions in the Mexican context, in order to measure how much the glass ceiling affects their professional development. For that, a documentary research was conducted by collecting information from both, companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV, according to its initials in Spanish) companies, as well as recent publications by the business sector in Mexico. The main finding of this study shows that on average, women who make up the Board of Directors in companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange companies, only reaches 4.56%, additionally, of the 500 best companies to work in Mexico, only 3% are directed by women, and, of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico, only 14% are company executives. Which shows that despite the advances that have occurred in relation to gender equality is still difficult for women to overcome theglass ceiling.