| Participants’ Expressions |
Codes and Explanations |
| “… I recognized long after… There were women who cannot stand my success in business life… Once a woman who was one of my ex-colleges came to me and said ‘… I behaved you so bad but when I slapped, you always turn the other chick like a prophet… what a good person you are’” |
Queen bees (Provisional coding)Queen Bee Syndrome is one of the glass ceiling barriers identified in literature, so that in open coding process we searched for this barrier especially, and entitled the code with a similar expression as used in literature. |
| “… I see it clearly that everything is related to family. The raising up style and parents expectations from their children has a great influence on children’s future preferences on their family life in the future…” |
Family culture (Descriptive coding)The code entitled as family culture in order to represent a statement about the influence of parents on their children’s future success. |
| “… That’s the mother’s dilemma; it is a horrible feeling of guilty and really hard to explain. Your child won’t be at that age again…” |
“Mother’s dilemma” (in vivo code)The code is taken directly from the participant’s expression in order to identify an individual glass ceiling barrier. |
| “… I started to sport in an early age, and in a disciplined manner. Training hours, tournament and races. Oriented to the goal, and professionally… I have not realized that before, but I think sports may have an impact on my business life…” |
Sports and social activities (A descriptive code emerged during initial coding process)The code appeared in one of the interviews spontaneously. Realizing that it can be an effective factor on carrier path of women, we added it to interview form, and addressed to participants whether they were interested in sports in their early life and after. |
| “… Actually, I consider myself as a lucky character so as not to confront barriers as defined ‘glass ceiling’ in any period of my life. Neither in school time, in business life, in X Turkey office, nor in X foreign office…” |
Not perceive glass ceiling (Thematic coding)This thematic code emerged code is emerged during selective coding process with other 2 thematic codes, in order to express the glass ceiling perceptions women employees, and to combine the themes of the theoretical model. |
