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Although more and more women are reaching positions of power within companies, many female professionals still hit a glass ceiling when it comes time to move up the career ladder. In this article, we will explore how to contribute to the advancement of women into senior management positions, and how we can finally break the glass ceiling.
What you’ll learn in this article:
→ What is the glass ceiling?
→ Mentoring to Break the Glass Ceiling and Promote Gender Equality
The glass ceiling is a term used to describe an invisible barrier that women face in their professional advancement. The barrier greatly reduces women’s opportunities for promotion to senior management positions. More concretely, in Canada, only 4% of women are CEOs. They also only occupy 25% of senior management positions and 21% of positions on boards of directors. Women also remain underrepresented in the entrepreneurial world. According to the Entrepreneurship Foundation, women feel less able to start a business than their male counterparts because they feel they have fewer skills.
A mentoring program is an excellent way to contribute to the advancement of women to higher positions of responsibility, as well as a way to promote their advancement in certain male-dominated sectors, such as science and technology. Since women face unique challenges in the labour market their male counterparts do not – including the persistence of societal barriers to career advancement – they would benefit fully from a safe space where it is possible to be mentored by other women who understand the reality they are facing. This mentoring relationship will enable them to improve their self-confidence and their ability to make decisions or run a business. In short, a mentorship program appears to be an effective way to encourage the empowerment of professional women and entrepreneurs, who are still too often undervalued in the workplace.
If you would like to support the development of professionals in your organization while promoting diversity and inclusion, please contact us to easily create your mentoring program.