Techos de cristal en la carrera laboral de las alumnas y ex alumnas de las facultades de Ciencias, Ciencias Administrativas, Mecánica, Química y Agroindustria, y la Escuela de Formación de Tecnólogos de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional

Abstract

This research aims to determine the social, internal and governmental barriers that prevent students of the National Polytechnic School from achieving high management and decision making positions, establishing the existence or not of the Glass Ceiling phenomenon. An analysis is made about the elements that comprise the barriers, as well as the progress of women in their access to higher education, the labor market and wages both globally and in Ecuador, as these issues represent an important precedent in the Glass Ceilings study. Through quantitative research and its data collection tool, social and internal barriers are known, while documentary research allows the verification of the existence or not of governmental barriers. The final part of this study includes the results obtained from the present work and some proposals to replicate it in other environments of the society in order to begin to build a database that supports new research.