Glass Ceiling: Effect on Women in Pharmaceutical Companies in India

Merchant, Abdulquadir Hatim (2024) Glass Ceiling: Effect on Women in Pharmaceutical Companies in India. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

Working women continue to face challenges, discrimination, and struggle for positions in senior management and leadership roles in a variety of organisation throughout the globe. There is a barrier that restricts the growth of women within the workforce. This term is known as the ‘glass ceiling’ (Sharma and Kaur, 2019). Prior research revealed that there is a glass ceiling in companies across the sectors like banking, service and information technology. The purpose of this study is to determine the personal barriers (PB), organisational barriers (OB), and social barriers (SB) that women in pharmaceutical companies in India face which impede their career advancement and to determine the effect of the glass ceiling on women’s work engagement level. Quantitative methodology was used in this research. The parameters of barriers and work engagement were adapted from previous studies. With the help of snowball sampling, data was collected through an online questionnaire survey from 47 women respondents working in pharmaceutical industry. Using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 29, the one sample t – test and moderated hierarchical regression analysis were used to test the hypothesis. The study’s conclusion identified that unlike other sectors, glass ceiling for women exists in the pharmaceutical sector across India. The factors from the personal, organisational and social barriers were identified that created blockage for women to grow in their careers. Lack of opportunities, Family and career, colleagues lack faith and leadership role were the parameters which create barriers for women growth in the organisation. Based on the analysis of results, the author makes recommendations to eradicate the personal, organisational and social barriers that create glass ceiling for women which affect their careers.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Supervisors:	Name Email Flores, Miguel UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Classes of Labour > Women and Work
Divisions:	School of Business > Master of Arts in Human Resource Management
Depositing User:	Ciara O'Brien
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2025 13:53
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2025 13:53
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7867

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