ABSTRACT
Determinants of women's advancement into management roles are proposed to arise from work and home situations and present and past circumstances. Individual factors of personal dispositions and early family background have been proposed to influence women becoming managers (Lemkau 1979). More recently (Riger and Galligan 1980), however, the work situation has been stressed as more influential. The debate as to whether women's advancement into management roles is caused by situational or individual factors, or both, is important in understanding how that rare person, "the woman manager," arises. The correct relative emphasis on individual or situational factors is necessary in order to redress women's continued underrepresentation in management.
