Women Roles in Iranian Organizations

The present study attempted to investigate the women roles in Iranian organizations. Thus, four main variables (organizational power, organizational structure, organizational culture and job beliefs were analyzed in forming eight correlation hypotheses. Also, based on the simple random sampling 21 organizations were selected as the samples of the study. The data collection was conducted using validated questionnaires for measuring the glass ceiling and sociological analysis of the organization. The data analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression methods. Inferentially, the results demonstrated an incomplete and reverse sort of correlation between the ‘glass ceiling situation’ and the ‘professional power’, the ‘open structure’, the ‘female-oriented organizational culture’, and the ‘superior-female job belief’. Further, there is correlation between the ‘glass ceiling situation’ and the ‘relationship power’, the ‘closed structure’, the ‘male-oriented gender culture’, and the ‘supreme-male job belief’. The regression analysis also showed that although the four variables of closed structure, male-oriented culture, female-oriented job belief, and male-oriented job belief, correlate significantly with the criterion variable of glass ceiling; they are not significant enough to predict the dependent variable. However, the ‘organizational power’, as the independent variable was valid enough for predicting ‘glass ceiling’ as a dependent variable.