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. 2019 Apr 9;7:68. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00068

Table 3.

Barriers to women's leadership in Greek healthcare and their Relative Importance Scores (RIS) based on Hierarchical Bayes (HB) estimation.

Barriers to women's leadership in Greek healthcare and their relative importance scores (RIS)
Stereotypes 8.80 (7.06–10.55)
Work/life balance 6.22 (4.24–8.20)
Lack of equal career advancement opportunities 5.72 (4.26–7.18)
Lack of confidence 5.25 (3.32–7.18)
Gender gap 5.25 (3.25–7.25)
Gender bias 5.18 (3.55–6.81)
Glass ceiling 4.72 (2.87–6.57)
Lack of family (espouse) support 4.71 (3.69–5.73)
Lack of role models 4.70 (3.31–6.09)
Lack of social support 4.46 (3.44–5.48)
Lack of flexible working environment 4.36 (2.64–6.07)
Lack of leadership skills 4.21 (2.82–5.59)
Lack of networking 4.01 (2.83–5.19)
Lack of mentoring 3.79 (2.40–5.18)
Isolation 3.22 (1.61–4.82)
Culture 3.21 (2.08–4.34)
Limited succession planning 3.09 (2.49–3.69)
Glass cliff 2.64 (1.66–3.62)
Personal health 2.48 (1.18–3.78)
Gender pay gap 2.34 (1.63–3.05)
Queen bee syndrome 2.07 (1.13–3.02)
Tokenism 1.97 (0.98–2.97)
Lack of executive sponsor 1.97 (0.94–2.99)
Race discrimination 1.93 (1.30–2.55)
Sexual harassment 1.89 (1.45–2.33)
Age 1.68 (0.88–2.48)