Women employees, who are the first group that comes to mind when it comes to gender inequality at the organizational level, can be unfairly treated in their career journeys as a result of unfair practices and processes in the organizational life just because they are women, and they may face many obstacles while building their careers. Various metaphors have been produced in the management literature to highlight these barriers. The aim of this review is to examine these metaphors produced for the obstacles women face in organizational life in the light of the literature and to evaluate the similarities and differences of these metaphors. In this study, nine metaphors; "glass ceiling", "concrete ceiling", "glass escalator", "leaky pipeline", "glass wall", "sticky floor", "glass door", "queen bee syndrome" and "glass cliff" are examined. The result of the evaluation shows that the obstacles faced by women employees in organizational life arise in different hierarchical steps and in different applications, and therefore there is no single metaphor covering all obstacles. Instead, a different metaphor was produced for each obstacle. When we look at the words in the metaphors, it is seen that the concept of "glass" is used in the metaphors produced in order to emphasize the invisible but existing obstacles. In addition, the organizational structure of the organization is likened to a building, and metaphors have been developed over the elements of a building such as "ceiling", "door", "floor", "wall" and "stairs". Metaphors generally concentrate on the barriers in three implementations: the recruitment process, the wage system, and the promotion mechanisms. However, female employees with different characteristics and qualifications face the obstacles in which metaphors are developed.