The Sticky Floor Beneath The Glass Ceiling

For a more in depth analysis of the sticky floor metaphor see karen nussbaum removing barriers for working women.

The sticky floor beneath the glass ceiling.

Free shipping on qualifying offers. 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. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Ashenfelter orley and timothy hannan.

Are women and minorities blocked from the executive suite cq researcher 3 o 29 93 pp. Sticky floors are our self limiting beliefs assumptions and sabotaging behaviours that undermine not only our own ability but that of other women to achieve their career goals and maximise the value we can bring to our teams and organisations. Although some argue that this situation is changing and that women are closing the gap there is still a significant difference between the male and female experience. 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.

The terms glass ceilings and sticky floors both refer to the experience of women in the labour market. The case of the banking. Hold those stones let me explain what i mean first. The infamous glass ceiling is still firmly in place.

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. Women have control and are in many ways to blame not for the imaginary glass ceiling but the sticky floor. 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 glass ceiling and the sticky floor must be demolished to create a more equitable workplace christian sci.

None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. And other things our daughters should know about marriage work. It s not the glass ceiling it s the sticky floor.

Laabs the sticky floor beneath the glass ceiling 72 personnel j. 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. It s not the glass ceiling it s the sticky floor. Glass ceiling survival essence 22 may 91 pp.

Sex discrimination and product market competition.