Discuss the concept of the “glass ceiling” as it relates to female correctional staff.
What will be an ideal response?
The glass ceiling is a term for official or unofficial barriers to promotion that exist for women within the workforce. For all practical purposes, it should be considered that some sort of barrier does indeed exist because there are substantially fewer female supervisors than male supervisors within correctional facilities. Furthermore, throughout history, women who worked in corrections tended to do so in facilities for women, and since the female offender population was proportionally smaller than the male offender population, the need for women to work in corrections was much less than that for men. In addition, there are social constraints in society that tend to frown upon women working within the prison environment.
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