Sticky Floor Feminism

Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.

Sticky floor feminism. I love images that paint a compelling picture. There are real factors which mean that many women take lower paid and part time jobs like wanting to spend more time with family and these are covered by the. Glass ceiling and sticky floor are pretty much the same thing. The sticky floor refers to women who occupy low paying low mobility positions such as clerical and administrative assistants mental health care and child care workers and service and.

They refer to the idea that women can only reach a certain level in terms of a successful career and are often held back. And so when a speaker on gender in the workplace talked about women and leadership and explored the underlying reason for the disproportionate number of women in high leadership positions as a combination of both glass ceiling and a sticky floor it resonated. Close to half of working women compared to one sixth of working men. We call it the sticky floor prominent chinese feminist feng yuan tells the new york times there is a glass ceiling here too but most women never even get off the sticky floor indeed while the advantages of having women in the boardroom are widely accepted in international business circles the idea doesn t garner much.