Annotated Bibliography: Glass Ceiling

Annotated Bibliography: Glass Ceiling
Barreto Manuela C, Michelle K. Ryan, and Michael T. Schmitt. The Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century: Understanding Barriers to Gender Equality. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2009. Print.
This book is an analysis of the psychological trends that prevent women from accessing positions of power in the society. The book draws on theories and research conducted in the past. This 2009 edition mainly looks at the delicate barriers that hinder women from accessing leadership at the workplace. The common theme running through the 12 chapters of this book is how gender discrimination has transformed into a complex and sensitive over time. The modern chauvinism, much like other forms of discrimination is veiled compared to its old-fashioned form. Hence, individuals find it more difficult pointing it out and generally lack the emotional awareness to point to its occurrence.
Bell Myrtle P. Diversity in Organizations. Mason, Ohio: South-Western College,2012. Print. 224
Diversity in organizations is a broad research-based text that is constructed to meet the needs of different disciplines. The book provides a good analysis on the different aspects of diversity in the organization, including the reason why diversity is critical to the organizations as it recruits, retains, and in effectively and adequately employing a diverse workforce and the laws that are related to diversity. The book conducts in-depth discussions of critical ethnic groups, the two genders, religion, work, family, appearances, physical abilities, mental abilities and sexual orientation.

The book provides suggestions to its readers on ways of becoming diversity-friendly employers, workers, and the manner in which non-dominant groups and dominant ones can work together in effecting change.
Murray Rainbow. Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling: A Global Comparison of Women’s Campaigns for Executive Office. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2010. Print.
This book employs both an international and methodic outlook in its analysis of gender issue during poll campaigns for the positions of the president in different jurisdictions throughout the globe. The book is a result of top-level contributions by accomplished scholars who converged around common threads such as gender prejudices, news and media coverage and the strategies of women with respect to gender in the campaigns and implications for election results. When performing an analysis of women who are running for the highest office in different countries the book attempts to redraw the commonalities present among them. For instance, the identified that female candidates often began as the most popular, and then as the potential for a woman to be the leader of a country enthralls the electorates, this is then followed by a fall in reputation as prejudices and sexist media treatment wear down the apparent standing of a woman as the president of a country.
Patterson Carol A. The Glass Ceiling Effect: A Perspective of African American Women. Minneapolis: Capella University, 2010. Print
This study looked into the perception of African American women regarding the glass ceiling effect. Patterson noted that the concept had been studied extensively since it was first introduced, but over the years, the studies have only been restricted to white women, with fewer others involving African American women. This paper explored perspectives of African American women on the glass ceiling effect with respect to ages, educational levels, employment positions and marital statuses. In the paper, it was revealed that there is little evidence that links glass ceiling effect score and their demographic variables. This research offers a refreshing look into a section of the population that the research community gave a blackout. Although the results of the study are already consistent with the widely held beliefs and knowledge on the glass ceiling effect, it was nonetheless an illuminating paper.

Works Cited
Barreto Manuela C, Michelle K. Ryan, and Michael T. Schmitt. The Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century: Understanding Barriers to Gender Equality. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2009. Print.
Bell Myrtle P. Diversity in Organizations. Mason, Ohio: South-Western College,2012. Print. 224
Murray Rainbow. Cracking the Highest Glass Ceiling: A Global Comparison of Women’s Campaigns for Executive Office. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2010. Print.
Patterson Carol A. The Glass Ceiling Effect: A Perspective of African American Women. Minneapolis: Capella University, 2010. Print