wed literature relevant to the various explanations for the low rate of advancement of women to the level of top-management in organizations. The authors addressed categorized these explanations as organizational influences, interpersonal influences, and individual influences. The authors noted further that broad social conditions affect each of these three sets of influences.
The new data examined by the researchers were collected from 513 women and 501 men who were managers in Australian organizations. Public sector organizations employed 58.5 percent of the members of the research sample with the remaining members of the research sample being employed by private sector organizations. None of the members of the research sample were employed by organizations with fewer than 100 personnel.
The researchers found that age exerted the strongest influence on the advancement of women to top-management positions. The research also found that education was almost as strong as age as an influence factor of the selection of wo
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