In this paper, while investigating the issue of women's lack of promotion, a systematic review of the research on the identification of barriers to women's promotion to the levels of management in Iranian governmental organizations was analyzed. Using the qualitative meta-analysis method and purposive sampling 32, research papers have been reviewed during the period from 2001 to 2017.The results show that there are significant changes in the prioritization of women's promotion barriers. In the 1980s, most studies have identified family-personal barriers as the main barrier to women's promotion to management levels. But in the next research, in addition to changing in priorities, a new barrier has also been added to the promotion barriers. The findings categorize women's promotion barriers into four broad categories and prioritize them as follows. Cultural-social barriers (gender stereotypes and domination of patriarchal culture).Political barriers (the absence of women in power rings, the absence of women in political parties and political groups, the inability of women in lobbying).Organizational barriers (organization's lack of trust in women, management perceived as a right and a male work, the absence of women in informal communication networks).And finally, individual-family barriers (women's lack of self-esteem, lack of motivation for advancement in women, and greater responsibility of women towards the family).