http://www.jstor.org Investigating the "Glass Ceiling" Phenomenon: An Empirical Study of Actual Promotions to Top Management Author(s): Gary N. Powell and D. Anthony Butterfield Source: The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, (Feb., 1994), pp. 68-86 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/256770 Accessed: 26/04/2008 11:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aom. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We enable the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.