Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences July – September 2019, Volume 7, No. 3, Pages 303 - 312 303 www.pjhss.com eISSN: 2415-007X The Impact of Social Support and Corporate Culture on Women Career Advancement Majid Ali 1 , Md. Lazim Bin Mohd Zin 2 , Zuraida Binti Hassan 3 1,2,3 School of Business Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, 06010, Kedah, Malaysia Email: decent_majid62@yahoo.com Abstract The ratio of women in managerial positions is still not satisfactory. However, little research has been pursued towards explaining the issues why they are not getting the top positions in any organizations. Researchers have identified the importance of the social support and corporate culture in the connection of the framework of Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) which remains unaddressed in the explicating the relationship between social support, corporate culture and women career advancement. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues that have effect on women career advancement. In addition, this paper is only a theoretical exploration, it is expected that this work lead towards an explanation of the relationship between social support, corporate culture and women career advancement, which may be studied further to determine the empirical finding about the other dynamic of the (SCCT). Keywords: Social Support, Corporate Culture, Women Career Advancement. I. Introduction All over the world, for a very long period of time, women have been traditionally responsible for rearing of children and keeping of the household, but men`s responsibilities are to engage themselves with employment and providing food and shelter for the family. Such gender division in connection with labor can be trace back to 1950s and 60s when the men were apportioned (rationality) ‘instrumental’. Owing to this trend, men were considered to be suitable more for managerial works than their women counterpart. The latest statistical information provided by the catalyst report (2017) shows that the rate of participation of women in working force at the international level reduced to 49% in 2015 from 52.4% in 1995. Also, in 2015, an insignificant portion of 12% of the board seat