Abstract

This paper is based on the study conducted on institutional sexism in commercial banks. Specifically the study focuses on the problems of under representation and slow upward mobility and underachievement of female employees of professional rank in commercial banks in Nigeria. The study sought to identify types of banking policies, practices and programmes which are implicated and examined ways in which they operate to bring about sexually discriminatory effects on inspirations of female employees. It sought to identify and examine the attitudes and behaviour of male colleagues against their female counterparts in the banking industry and their implication for the development of the female bankers. Analysis was made of the structural determinants, behaviour differences as well as unequal distribution of opportunity and power between the sexes.