By mar 6 2006 12 00am est updated mar 2 2006 11 07am est.
Sticky floor versus glass ceiling.
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I love images that paint a compelling picture.
But i have seen something different.
Barriers to career advancement.
Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.
Sticky floor and glass ceiling.
Glass ceiling or 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.
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.
But the sticky floor theory doesn t have.
The glass ceiling and sticky floor for women in medicine begin early.
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.
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.
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.
Susan hingle md 1.
None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me.
Eileen barrett md mph 2.
The real reason women don t make it.
Usually women blame the old boys club or the glass ceiling for the dearth of women at the top she says.
Gender differences in resident assessment.
To answer the question of whether there is a glass ceiling or a sticky floor i e.
The term sticky floor was coined in 1992 by catherine berheide in a report for the centre for women in government.
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.
Whether wage gaps are higher at the upper or lower ends of the wage distribution this paper examines.
Many women are mired in.
The connotation of the new metaphor the sticky floor is that majority of women are stuck at the bottom.
We are about to experience perhaps the most profound vacuum.
