Abstract:
1. Introduction
The career Advancement Issue of female managers is unresolved in the
world and according to the literature survey, researchers have paid less
attention to this issue. Through a literature survey, researchers have
identified that female managers in the banking sector in Sri Lanka are
highly supper with this issue and preliminary survey support confirms the
issue. This study aims to investigate causes influencing the lower rate of
career advancement of female managers in the banking sector with a focus
on the perspective of People’s Bank’s regional managers and determine the
approaches to get beyond obstacles of reach the career advancement.
2. Methodology
The study employed interpretivist philosophy and qualitative research
design to address the research questions. The reason is that qualitative
research is helpful to associate women with closer to detect their inner
feelings, experiences, views, and perceptions to recognize their description
of the career advancement of females in the banking sector. To collect data,
utilize the semi-structured interviews with six purposively selected
participants, within a focused-on case study strategy. Thematic analysis
was exploited to analyze and summarize gathered data.
3. Finding and Discussion
Researchers have found unique causes and presented them under two main
themes such as intramural roadblocks and extramural roadblocks for
women’s career advancement. As a intramural roadblocks, family
restrictions, mandatory professional qualifications, mental configurations
and essential of professional competences were mentioned. As a
extramural roadblocks, pressure from external parties, unfavorable work
settings, unconstructive social beliefs, outlook restrictions, and dismayed
working culture were mentioned.
4. Conclusion and Implications
The result of current research has ensured intramural roadblocks and
extramural roadblocks that influencing to the lower rate of career
advancement of female in the banking sector. And intramural
reinforcement and extramural reinforcement used by females to get beyond
obstacles that influence the lower rate of career advancement females in
the banking sector.
