Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kelly, Rita Mae
• Guy, Mary E.
• Bayes, Jane
• Duerst-Lahti, Georgia
• Duke, Lois L.
• Hale, Mary M.
• Johnson, Cathy
• Kawar, Amal
• Stanley, Jeanie R.

Titel

Public Managers in the States: A Comparison of Career Advancement by Sex

Ist Teil von

• Public administration review, 1991-09, Vol.51 (5), p.402-412

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Society for Public Administration

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Are women being effectively integrated into the managerial ranks of state government administrations? Rita Mae Kelly, Mary Guy, and colleagues report on the findings of a six-state study that addressed this and related issues. Overall, they find "little evidence...that more than a minimal level and type of equality have taken place." Their surveys indicate that men continue to hold disproportionately more elite positions in state administrative systems, but there is progress being made in including women in higher echelon jobs. However, inclusion is accomplished at "a high personal price" among those who advance. They also find gender factors to be important in the mentoring process that is so important to the development and advancement of managers. Men tend to have male mentors, and women are as likely to have male mentors as they are to have women mentors. Nevertheless, women who found female mentors gained considerably from that relationship. Based on studies of the federal government, their findings indicate that women are faring better at the state level in regard to advancement opportunities and rewards.