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The "glass ceiling" is defined as the obstacles that obstruct a woman to achieve high-level positions in organizations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the current situation of women in senior management positions in the Mexican context, in order to measure how much the glass ceiling affects dieir professional development. For that, a documentary research was conducted by collecting information from both, companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV, according to its initials in Spanish) companies, as well as recent publications by the business sector in Mexico. The main finding of this study shows that on average, women who make up the Board of Directors in companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange companies, only reaches 4-56%, additionally, of the 500 best companies to work in Mexico, only 3% arc directed by women, and, of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico, only 14% arc company executives. Which shows that despite the advances that have occurred in relation to gender equality is still difficult for women to overcome the glass ceiling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I intend to reconstruct, from an ethnographic perspective, a number of situations lived in an urban organization of unemployed workers at the city and the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. On one side, I describe and analyze how a certain complementarity of tasks takes place in the ways women and men participate. On the other, I show how the existence of an Espacio de Mujeres (Women's Space) in this organization strains the outlines and limits of those ways of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on women and work are substantial; however, the relevance of the subject allows continue investigating and know the current experiences of its protagonists. It is precisely the purpose of this paper analyze contemporary reflections of mothers-fathers with respect to the exercise of motherhood and work. From the socio-cultural perspective, as part of a qualitative methodology, in-depth interviews were made to middle-class parents. Reported their reflections and the reasons why renounce women the labour field. Become critical reflections on the topic and proposed alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]