GLASS CEILING EFFECT AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Women play a vital role in today's workforce and continue to break barriers, but many women experience discrimination and are ignored for senior roles because of the glass ceiling effect. Women’s empowerment can be defined to promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others. Women Empowerment helps women to take their own decisions by breaking all the limitations of the family and the society. The term "glass ceiling" is a metaphor for the barriers that women and people of colour face when striving to move upward in the workplace. Glass ceiling states both visible and invisible obstacles that stops women from proceeding to the top positions. This study is an attempt to study the glass ceiling effect and women empowerment