The Nonprofit Sector and Gender Discrimination

✍ Scribed by Margaret Gibelman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1048-6682
• DOI: 10.1002/nml.10303

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

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.