Are we breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of a Chilean company

This research aims to analyze difficulties that women face to access managerial positions taking the particular case of a Chilean company with an explicit commitment to gender equality to develop my analysis. Specifically, this research investigates the operationalization inside the organization of the glass ceiling's common causes: Gender biases, Queen Bee Phenomenon, Gendered-based language and Punishment to motherhood. Using interviews to managers as a main method and the principles of Grounded Theory to analyze the data, this research shows that even with Diversity and Inclusion Policies and a corporate structure that translates those policies into actions, micro-discriminations, gendered power relations, and male-dominated structures keep pushing women back from leadership positions in very subtle ways. Nevertheless, young female leaders, self-declared feminist, are more aware of the company's production and reproduction of gendered practices. In this regard, they developed some intra-gender solidarity strategies to challenge the status quo and promote more women in managerial positions.