A Study On The Hindrance Of Career Development Of Female Civil Servants

Career development impediments are factors that are detrimental to an employee’s personal career development due to a variety of reasons in the career development process.In today’s society and in the case of public administration practices,how to address career development impediments for female civil servants is a top priority and is central to the development of national strategies.The goal of this study is to propose targeted improvement measures to explore and construct career development strategies for female civil servants.Based on the questionnaire survey method and interview method,the basic information of female civil servants and their career development were collected by distributing questionnaires to major state functional organs in Songjiang District,Shanghai,summarizing and analyzing the problems in female civil servants’ career,understanding their ideas and expectations of their career,and finding the bottlenecks that hinder female civil servants’ career development.At the same time,by exploring the problems and analyzing the causes,the career development strategies of female civil servants are explored.The findings show that:1.The design of the self-administered questionnaire of female civil servants’ career barriers has good reliability and validity indicators such as internal consistency reliability,individual reliability,content validity,surface validity,and structural validity,which can be used as a self-instrument to measure female civil servants’ barriers.2.The degree of female career self-barriers is low.3.The factors that hinder female civil servants’ career consist of four dimensions: social,organizational,family,and personal.Based on the two-factor theory and organizational support theory in this paper,this study proposes four major countermeasures to improve the career development from four dimensions: 1.increase public social awareness;2.increase government support in policy and system.3.strengthen the awareness of personal career development planning.4.strengthen the family management and guidance for female civil servants.