Gender Issues and Suggestions for Public Personnel Administration: An Analysis of Organizational Architecture Model
Huan-Jung Huang, Kai-Hung Fang, Chih-Heng Tsai*
Abstract
With the development of feminism, researchers have been paying more and more attention to gender issues in organizational studies and human resources management. Mary Guy used metaphors such as glass ceilings, glass walls, sticky floors, and trap doors to describe the barriers on the way of woman’s career advancement. Based on the dimensions such as recruiting, training, promotion, and retaining, this paper intends to see whether barriers identified by Guy exist in Taiwan’s public personnel management, and how these barriers could be removed. It is found that barriers including glass ceilings, glass walls, sticky floors, and trap doors can all be found in Taiwan’s public organizations. As a result, this paper recommends that more proactive measures be applied to restructuring the organizations in order to remove the barriers that prevent woman’s career advancement in public institutions.
Keywords:gender issues, organizational architecture, glass ceiling, sexual discrimination, gender mainstreaming
* Huan-Jung Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Social Public Affairs, Taipei Municipal University of Education. Kai-Hung Fang, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Affairs, Ming Chuan University. Chih-Heng Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Affairs, Ming Chuan University.
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