GENDER DIVERSITY AND EMPLOYEE EFFICIENCY IN SELECTED COMMERCIAL BANKS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

In the last decades, those organizational barriers that hinder women from advancing to the top in their career have been a vital area in organizational research. Singh & Vinnicombe (2014) in their study discovered that women are almost if not completely absent when it comes to occupying senior positions in organizations. However, male directors often form an elite group at the top of the corporate world and only very few women are able to breakthrough these glass ceiling into this elite group, despite making inroads into middle management. This point out that gender in the board of directors in some big organization was a barrier for career advancement. Singh & Vinnicombe (2014) argued that this was a matter of concern, because the talents of women are not being fully utilized. The private sectors was seen and characterized as influential, powerful, financially important and generally not controlled by the state. Historically, the private sector, including the board of directors has been male dominated where men have controlled the majority of high-level positions and especially those related to power (Healy, et al. 2011)