Steele's Article, The Glass Ceiling Is Breaking, What

The article, The Glass Ceiling Is Breaking, Now What, by Candace Steele, explores different factors that influence the progression of Gen X women’s careers. Gender-related barriers of women getting promoted still exist today and it is essential to assess how women can move past such barriers. Women in this study showed that women predominantly viewed their occupation development in a multidimensional approach. This study shows that Gen X women represent 47% of the labor force in the United States. Steele conducts an effective study that looks at areas involving performance, career planning, organizational empowerment and networking (Steele, 2017). Steele is one of just a few people that have researched the advancement of Gen X women, therefore she suggests that more research is warranted to gain a better understanding of how …show more content…
Women in the Gen X generation use a simultaneous approach to advance their careers that involve strategy and planning to show where their career is going, and will they perform well in that role. Human resource departments are encouraged to acquire tools that permit women to manage this approach. Forty-five percent of the women studied conveyed that planning a career was the second highest important factor to achieving advancements in their career. Thirty-three percent of the women state that the third highest factor to achieving advancement in their careers is organizational empowerment. Organizational empowerment comes from managers that support and advocate for advancement of the female employees. According to 8 percent of the women in the study, networking is the fourth highest factor in achieving career advancement. The Baby Boomer generation is beginning to exit the work force leaving leadership roles vacant allowing women from the next generation to prepare them these types of jobs (Steele,