Here's what stops women managers from making it to the top!

Being successful in career development is generally more difficult for women than men! Here are some conditions you have to fulfill if you are a woman manager and wish to make it to the top:
Enter management at an early age! The early twenties would do so that by the time you are in your early thirties you would have some measure of experience.
Have appropriate management qualifications. A bachelor's degree is good, an Master's is even better. Women tend to hold back on their education in Africa and Asia for fear of not being able to attract the right man to marry them. So the way out is probably to get the first degree and try for a master's from hubby's home.
Have experience and rapidly gain experience in functions meant to be core to the organization.
Be continuously employed and work long hours and conform to the organization's age related concept of career. Going by Best Practices HR, women managers are expected to be in middle management by their early 30's just like their male counterparts.
Be geographically mobile and conform to promotional criteria. Can a woman be moved to head a major branch of offices and the shortest possible notice? Men usually dominate the committees that consider women for promotion. This is a major challenge!
There are a few barriers that could hinder women at an individual and institutional level:
Attitude and behaviour of female managers. There is a lack of confidence among female managers because of their behavioral tendencies such as pettiness among their gender, low career orientation and lack of competition. Women are often favored when strict merit based assessments are applied.
HR policies and practices which discriminate against women managers foreclose selection of women for certain positions.
There are certain organizational cultural factors and attitudes of male managers and informal clubs as well as networks in which women are excluded. Such stereotype behavior limits the chances of women managers.