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The Nonprofit Sector and Gender Discrimination
Author(s) -
Gibelman Margaret
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.10303
Subject(s) - glass ceiling , exploratory research , phenomenon , nonprofit sector , ceiling (cloud) , service (business) , tertiary sector of the economy , business , public relations , demographic economics , sociology , political science , marketing , economics , law , social science , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , structural engineering
This article reports the results of an exploratory study of a cross section of nonprofit human service organizations that examined whether and to what extent a glass ceiling exists for women in this sector. The findings substantiate the existence of the glass ceiling phenomenon among the agencies studied. Men are disproportionately represented in management, particularly upper‐level management, and they earn higher salaries than women at all hierarchical levels of the organization.