Glass Ceiling And Sticky Floor

Throughout the glass ceiling and sticky floor argument there is always an element that makes me question whether we as women are doing enough for ourselves to overcome the barriers to inclusion equality and employment.

Glass ceiling and sticky floor. Rebecca shambuagh author of it s not a glass ceiling it s a sticky floor identifies seven factors that create a sticky floor and that get in the way for women. Barriers to career advancement. Shambaugh has identified two key issues women face when it comes to self limiting behaviors and beliefs.

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. Sticky floor and glass ceiling.

A sticky floor is better to have than a glass ceiling because you can pull yourself free of the sticky floor or see it before you get stuck she says. In addition to the glass ceiling women also face a sticky floor where they are less likely to advance owing to inadequate investment and resource allocation at the beginning of their careers. These barriers prevent some women from reaching the upper echelon in business government and academia while keeping others in jobs with low wages.

The sticky floor concept is as the name describes implying there is less of a glass ceiling than one may have thought previously but rather as a woman that i am somehow unknowingly sabotaging my own efforts to achieve that senior level position. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder.

Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. The metaphors of the glass ceiling and the sticky floor represent the presumed barriers that exist at the extremes of the female wage distribution. Challenges with work life balance letting perfectionism get in the way waiting for hard work to be recognized rather than taking control of your own destiny.