The Sticky Floor Sociology

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The sticky floor sociology.

Sticky floor in the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling. More specifically they refer to the situation whereby women are not promoted in line with their male counterparts and where women s wages are significantly less than men s even though they may be doing jobs of equal value. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Is a metaphor sometimes used to convey the difficulties that disadvantaged groups experience in moving from the bottom of the organizational hierarchy.

They refer to the idea that women can only reach a certain level in terms of a successful career and are often held back. Glass ceiling and sticky floor are pretty much the same thing. Close to half of working women compared to one sixth of working men. The sticky floor refers to low paying low prestige and most important low mobility jobs typically held by women.

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. Drawing new ontologies mary s. Whereas the glass ceiling evokes the idea of a barrier preventing access to management grades the sticky floor focuses attention on the first stage of progression. Glass ceilings and sticky floors.

Morgan1 london school of economics university of amsterdam and university of pennsylvania abstract. A term for a male to female disparity in career advancement in medicine in which female candidates have a distinct disadvantage. 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. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.

It is composed of the lowest paying female dominated occupational categories such as paraprofessional and administrative support. In such cases as in the case. 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.