Dimensions of Ongoing Role Institutionalization: Romanian Women Managers Representations on Factors Influencing Career Development

This article critically assesses the inferences of the role institutionalization in the representations and self-perception of women executives in Romania, as a first phase in reconstructing social reality. The target of the research is to surprise the manner they interpret the factors and constraints which influence a successful career. We shall reach this target by analyzing the research based on the method of sociological investigation on a national quota sampling on women executives in the public and private field in the context of discrimination and the gender role in these two scopes, the stress resulted in the dynamics occupational environment – family environment. More particular, we shall analyze the factors which prevent and those which enable the careers of women executives, and afterwards we shall compare their interpretations with those in the specialty literature. The results show that women executives in Romania base upon the help of their family and endeavour in order to keep in balance the family life and values with those of the career, under the conditions of a traditional functional model, which capitalizes family as central indicator of life success.