The Causes of Glass Ceiling in Ethiopia in Profit And Non- Profit Government Organizations – the Case of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the National Bank of Ethiopia - Head Offices

Abstract

More explicit understanding of women capability to be on higher level management position in an organization is very much important, but it is clearly seen that the women are undermined to be in such higher level position by different factors. This paper describes the causes of Glass Ceiling, i.e, the barrier of different factors that hinders women to be in higher level management position and to make recommendation on how to break these Glass Walls. The data was collected using open ended and closed ended questionnaires. The first one was prepared in Amharic and protested for all women employee who are 1st Degree holder and above in each three for - profit and for non - profit government organizations and the other was prepared in English and protested only for the top level and middle level managers of these organizations. From the research it is found that the causes of glass ceiling is significant on the Ethiopian for profit and non -profit government organization.