Glass frontiers in women's professional careers. Gender, subjectivity, globalization

This article examines the tension existing between the construction of singular subjectivities and the assumption that these subjectivities are merely the effect of socio-cultural conditions. The analysis of subjectivity is necessary to understand singularities in a genderized society and the persistence of conditions of inequality and discrimination against women. This leads us to question simple reductionist positions, such as women's subjectivity as a direct internalization of cultural structures, and to explore further the interplay between these structures, the mediations of, subjects' and women's groups, and resistance. A significant factor contributing to the "glass ceiling" depressive effect on women's mental health is the complex interaction between the working environment, organizational aspects, and mental distress.