This article is concerned with the complex and diverse relationship between gender, careers and organisation. W e tried to explore the unseen barriers for career advancement of women employees who worked in a large-scale modern factory in Defence Industry, located in Ankara, Turkey. In order to explore the gendered processes and practices that shape women's career paths, we carried out a workplace survey and conducted in-depth interviews. We observed that there were informal barriers for women employees to climb career paths. Only a few women engineer jilled intermediate managerial positions and those women challenged their organizations in varied ways to cope with those barriers.
Key words: gender studies, labour market discrimination, glass ceiling, gendered organizations, gendered workplace, job segregation by sex Article Language: EnglishTurkish
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