Glass ceilings in the university female teaching

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the different barriers that women with managerial positions have to overcome throughout their academic career, these barriers are known as glass ceilings because they are invisible, you cannot see them but they are there limiting their access to positions with power, these barriers can be at the institutional or personal level, at the institutional level it is determined that many of the times male support networks make female leadership invisible, as well as female networks that have failed to contribute to strengthening to its members, however in the research it is mentioned that the strengthening of values such as that of sisterhood can lead women who are members to obtain positions with power and take them successfully, these aspects that have enabled and at the same time have prevented that women come to occupy managerial positions at the academic level in combination of the variables ceilings of crystal and female university teaching. The continuous struggle and the limitations little by little continue to disappear, in the present case the Technical University of Ambato has been taken as a sample and example, where the participation of women in management positions and lower positions could be evidenced, but they always remain latent the ideal of meeting your goals and surpassing yourself with optimism and the ability to one day be at the same level as man.

Keywords: Teaching, leadership, gender, patriarchy.