Escala de Barreiras para o Desenvolvimento de Carreira das Mulheres: Propriedades Psicométricas: https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2025.25388

Élen Sicolin Contro; Pricila de Sousa Zarife; Pedro Afonso Cortez

Barriers to Women's Career Development Scale: Psychometric Properties

https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2025.25388

Authors

Élen Sicolin Contro Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo (SP), Brazil
Pricila de Sousa Zarife Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Minas Gerais (MG), Brazil
Pedro Afonso Cortez Tuiuti University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná (PR), Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0107-2033

Keywords:

test validity, professional development, working women

Abstract

Offering instruments capable of assessing the barriers that inhibit equitable career development between men and women is essential to reduce gender asymmetries in organizations. We analysed the psychometric properties of the Scale of Barriers for Women's Career Development. We surveyed 210 Brazilian working women and analysed the data using the JASP 0.16.4 software. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis identified an internal structure with five factors (Work-Family Conflict, Management Policies and Practices, Intragroup Discrimination, Discriminatory Practices, and Internal Barriers), with adequate internal consistency and convergent validity with workaholism. We impact the area with the provision of the instrument for diagnosis and prognosis of contingencies that inhibit the career development of women in work organizations, favouring organizational assessment practices focused on effective gender equity through men and women.

Keywords: test validity; professional development; working women

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Published

2025-11-19

Issue

Vol. 25 No. contínuo (2025): rPOT Continuous numbering/2025

Section

Empirical Research Reports

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