Sticky Floor Women S Studies

It s not a glass ceiling.

Sticky floor women s studies. In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling. The book is written as the title implies primarily for women but most if not all the messages apply equally as well to men. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. The central premise is that career development.

Close to half of working women compared to one sixth of working men hold clerical or service jobs which are often associated with the sticky floor by comparison the term glass ceiling is used to describe an artificial discriminatory barrier which blocks the advancement of women or people of color who already hold fairly good jobs. Enter the sticky floor. It s a sticky floor is a fantastic book for anyone interested in career development especially where they aspire to a senior executive position. Although the center s research focused on government workers harlan says the sticky floor applies to women in all types of employment.

The sticky floor metaphor is one where women somehow hold themselves back either unwittingly or by design. Berheide a sociologist of work at skidmore college in upstate new york proposes the sticky floor as an image to encapsulate the plight of hundreds of thousands of women trapped in low wage. Exploring the glass ceiling or sticky floor phenomenon applied economics 10 1080 00036846 2016 1150955 48 43 4098 4111 2016. As so perhaps there is something more at work here.