An Empirical Research On The Factors Of Career Barriers Of Highly Educated Women And Its Solutions

As time goes by, physical differences are no longer trapping women's career development. They become more powerful in several fields. But the situation today is still hard for women especially for highly educated women, because of some social responsibilities and personal goals conflict of them. To find the career barriers which hamper highly educated women's career success means a lot.As there was so little literature about highly educated women, especially about the correlations between career barriers and career success. That's the essay trying to work out.The essay is based on some classic theories about career success and career barriers, examined by internet questionnaire and used SPSS13.0 for data analysis to get the following conclusions:1. Education background makes women feel different about the factors of women's career barriers; 2. Factors of career barriers of highly educated women are significant negative to career success; 3. "Work to family conflict" influence highly educated women's career success most, "family to work conflict" and "Role conflict" are as the second and the third.According to the result of data analysis, the conclusions are as follows:1. Differences of expectations and social realities make highly educated women hard to set personal status; 2. Work influences highly educated women's life is the most seriouse factors which hampers their career success; 3. Work-family conflict hampers highly educated women most.The essay also gives some solutions according to the aboving conclusions1.Making a clear goal and facing the social reality; 2. Exerting advantages, weakening disadvantages , as well as keep learning; 3. Being strict to oneself, asking for less and building up self-confidence; 4. Facing role conflict and making work-life balance.