"Women have low levels of ambition for promotion in comparison with men. If nothing is done to rectify this situation, the number of women in managerial positions will not increase. This paper addresses the issue that women's ambition for promotion may be strongly determined by factors related to the companies and workplaces in which they work (“organizational factors”), and describes empirical analysis conducted to ascertain specifically what kinds of organizational factors it is linked to. In this analysis, a clear distinction is drawn between two different organizational factors: “measures and systems,” which are implemented at the corporate level, and “workplace conditions,” which are viewed in terms of employees' awareness of the implementation of such measures and perception of their supervisors' management approaches. The results reveal that while the implementation of measures at corporate level has only limited effects, the conditions of the workplaces in which women work play an important role in increasing their ambition for promotion. More specifically, it is important for female employees to recognize their companies' efforts to engage in measures to support women's career advancement and measures to support balancing work and family life, and for supervisors to pursue appropriate management approaches, including efforts to support the career development of subordinates. Supervisors currently manage their subordinates differently depending on their gender, and it is important for companies to develop measures such that they encourage supervisors to support female subordinates in developing their careers. "

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