Exploring the Model of Women Silence in Universities

The Importance of addressing women's organizational silence It is important to emphasize that professional women working in the organization decide to remain silent and block the knowledge-sharing process. In order to extract the main components and influences on women's organizational silence, semi-structured interviews were used and in-depth interviews with 20 people including female university professors, group managers and specialists (male and female) in the university using purposive sampling method. In the present study, using the data foundation method, in the open coding stage, 6 pivotal categories, 30 concepts and 668 codes were extracted. Findings from this study show that the main reason for women's silence in the organization is "masculine structure" and "learned helplessness" by women.