Decisive Factors of “Glass Ceiling” on Women Career Development in Malaysia

Women may lead to face a lot of barriers in pursuing their careers. In Malaysia, it is being denied that factors of Glass Ceiling would give an impact towards women's career development as there have many opportunities opened towards women. The Glass Ceiling factor may be varying as it based on the researcher's perspective of the study. Thus, this study is being conducted to examine what is the main factor of the Glass Ceiling which could give an impact on women's career development. There are four factors that impact career women's development which include individual factors, family factors, organizational factors, and cultural factors. This study adopted quantitative research by distributing a set of questionnaires to collect data from 100 respondents in Malaysia. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Version 25 Software. The results indicated that family factor and organizational factor has a significant impact on women career development.