irect and overt organizational policies against promoting women to management cause fewer women than men to be selected for promotion to management. Significant among these other reasons were that:
1. Overt company policies do cause fewer women than men to be inducted into organizations, and, thus, to be selected for management training and development programs.
2. An ingrained and unconscious bias exists among organizational personnel recruiters that causes fewer qualified women than men to be available for management programs.
3. Fewer women receive the education and training required to enable equal numbers of women and men to be available for managerial responsibilities.
4. An ingrained and unconscious bias exists among organizational selectors that causes fewer women than men to be selected for management training and development programs initially, and for promotion to management later.
This study investigated and analyzed the status of women in business in Canada. Economic, political, and social aspects of the is
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