Sticky Floor Versus Glass Ceiling

Usually women blame the old boys club or the glass ceiling for the dearth of women at the top she says.

Sticky floor versus glass ceiling.

We are about to experience perhaps the most profound vacuum. Whether wage gaps are higher at the upper or lower ends of the wage distribution this paper examines. Susan hingle md 1. The glass ceiling and sticky floor for women in medicine begin early.

The connotation of the new metaphor the sticky floor is that majority of women are stuck at the bottom. I love images that paint a compelling picture. We hold commissions think tanks inquiries and productivity studies we talk a lot of talk and argue bitterly about the issues we face and yet the fact is this. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.

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. The term sticky floor was coined in 1992 by catherine berheide in a report for the centre for women in government. Eileen barrett md mph 2. But i have seen something different.

The real reason women don t make it. Glass ceiling or sticky floor. For women in leadership roles in australia the constant battle to unglue our feet from that sticky floor of workplace inequality can get incredibly tiring. Author affiliations article information.

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. The infamous glass ceiling. Barriers to career advancement. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me.

Gender differences in resident assessment. 1 department of medicine southern illinois university school of medicine springfield. But the sticky floor theory doesn t have. Sticky floor and glass ceiling.

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. Many women are mired in. To answer the question of whether there is a glass ceiling or a sticky floor i e.