Kadın Kütüphanecilerin Kariyer Yolundaki Tehlike: Cam Tavan Sendromu = The Danger in the Career Path of Female Librarians: The Glass Ceiling Syndrome

Although there is no legal obstacle within the organization, the invisible barriers that prevent women from coming to senior management positions are called glass ceiling syndrome; in the literature. The main reason for choosing gender discrimination as the subject of this study is that this issue can be encountered at all levels of business life as well as for women working in libraries, information center, etc. and it puts them at a disadvantage. The starting point of this assumption has been that the students who preferred the Information and Records Management Departments, which provide undergraduate education in universities from the past to the present, were predominantly female students, then this weight continued in their professional life, but the situation was reversed in the management levels. Despite this, it is interesting to see that this important subject has not been explored in the librarianship literature until now. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the glass ceiling syndrome has an effect on the promotion of female information professionals to managerial positions. In this study, the data about the information professionals studying and working in this field were turned into statistical tables and an evaluation was made based on these results by considering the reasons for bringing men to the managerial positions in a female-dominated profession. As a result of the evaluation of the data, the assumption that the initial glass ceiling syndrome was an obstacle in the professional careers of female information professionals was also confirmed.