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This paper is part of a larger research having as the main goal the study of a set of psycho-social, organizational and structural variables that could explain the reduced number of women working in leadership positions. In order to check differences in job status (people of the same gender playing different roles) and gender differences (people of different gender playing the same role), this paper focuses on the predictive power of two psycho-social variables, i.e., values and stereotyped gender traits and five organizational variables, i.e., job satisfaction, identification with the organization, conflicts in the willingness to invest time and effort in getting promoted, and perceived work interference in family life. Thirty five working teams belonging to various organizations in different industries participated in the study. A discriminant analysis was performed. Implications of the study of glass ceiling by means of methods other than the traditional ones and results yielded by this study, are discussed vis-à-vis the access of women to positions of responsibility in organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]