Glass Ceiling Sticky Floor

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Glass ceiling sticky floor. 1 department of medicine southern illinois university school of medicine springfield. 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. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder.

I love images that paint a compelling picture. Author affiliations article information. In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling.

Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban china 1987 2004 journal of comparative economics 10 1016 j jce 2007 12 001 36 2 243 263 2008. The glass ceiling and sticky floor for women in medicine begin early. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.

Catherine berheide was subsequently interviewed in 1993 by laabs where she stated most women should be so lucky to have the glass ceiling as their problem. Wei chi bo li glass ceiling or sticky floor. These barriers prevent some women from reaching the upper echelon in business government and academia while keeping others in jobs with low wages.

The term sticky floor is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale. Eileen barrett md mph 2. Susan hingle md 1.

The term sticky floor was coined in 1992 by catherine berheide in a report for the centre for women in government. Morgan1 london school of economics university of amsterdam and university of pennsylvania abstract how did the glass ceiling and related characteristics of female labour force experience become recognised as a proper object for social scientific study. Drawing new ontologies mary s.