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Croatian female scientists attitudes towards glass ceiling theory assumptions - a comparative analysis

The issue of gender diversity and stereotypes related to their impact on culturally and socially conditioned performance of social, primarily work roles, has continuously caused controversy in the sociological literature since the middle of the last century. Although gender equality has reached a satisfactory level in Croatian society's formal legal framework, we often witness equal rights do not imply equal opportunities in social reality. This paper primarily focuses on the glass ceiling theory assumptions and its incidence in Croatian female scientists' attitudes compared to other sectors that employed females in Croatia. The paper aims to compare the Croatian female scientists' attitudes towards the glass ceiling theory assumptions with other female employed respondents in all other employment areas (apart from science) to determine their attitudes, similarities, and differences. The data for analysis has been collected through an online survey using the snowball method, from June 2019 until February 2020, on the representative sample of 1620 female respondents in all employment areas. The overall number of female scientists in the survey conducted is 675 (41, 7%). The paper examines the attitude of women scientists and non-scientists on whether women are equally capable of performing higher managerial positions as men and how they are promoted from entry positions to higher managerial positions. How many women are represented in governing bodies, whether they receive the same salary as men, and how many obstacles there are in advancing women's careers in science compared to other occupations? The paper also examines the differences in attitudes on women scientists and non-scientists with a non-parametric test, namely the Chi-Square Test of Independence, which determines whether there is an association between categorical variables. The study results reveal noticeable differences towards glass ceiling theory assumptions in two groups of female respondents observed proving how we need to work more on education policy for gender equality towards the full implementation of gender equality in Croatian national society.

female scientists ; glass ceiling theory ; gender diversity ; women career development

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