Women And Ethics In The USAF

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The company/organization that I will be discussing in regards to this module is the U.S. Air Force and how women face certain barriers within (i.e. promotion). Through my research, I found that “The Glass Ceiling” refers to the artificial barriers that women and minorities have to confront while trying to advance within their careers. The concept of the “glass ceiling” was created with the publication of the book “Breaking the Glass Ceiling” by Morrison et Al.’s, which brought the term “glass ceiling” into the lexicon in 1987. In the following years, the term came into wider usage, and the glass ceiling took off as a political issues. Today, it seems, it has become a routine practice to deny thousands of qualified women top level jobs, although being lauded for their performance. Some see the “glass ceiling” barriers toward women as nothing but an insidious form of sexual discrimination, in violation of law. A situation which therefore should be corrected by application of affirmative action laws.
According to a 2001 study commissioned by America by the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, 97% of the senior managers of the Fortune 1000 Industrial and Fortune 500 are white, and 95-97% are male. This is occurring while 57% of the workforces are ethnic minorities, women, or both. Women constitute at the moment, 35% of the world’s labor force. The study also found that African, Hispanic(Latino), and Asian Americans do not earn the same pay for comparable positions., African Americans earning an astounding 21% less than their white counterparts in the same job. In this paper, I will relate all of this information to women who serve in the Air Force and some of the barriers they (we) face when it comes down to advancement within.
Interest in the role of women in the military has been brought about by several different phenomena. The first, and probably the most powerful influence affecting women, consists of the socia...