Sticky Floor Versus Glass Ceiling

The glass ceiling and sticky floor for women in medicine begin early.

Sticky floor versus glass ceiling. Gender differences in resident assessment. Many women are mired in. The infamous glass ceiling. The connotation of the new metaphor the sticky floor is that majority of women are stuck at the bottom.

Susan hingle md 1. Whether wage gaps are higher at the upper or lower ends of the wage distribution this paper examines. 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 is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale.

Sticky floor and glass ceiling. 1 department of medicine southern illinois university school of medicine springfield. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. The term sticky floor was coined in 1992 by catherine berheide in a report for the centre for women in government.

Glass ceiling or sticky floor. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses. But the sticky floor theory doesn t have. I love images that paint a compelling picture.

By mar 6 2006 12 00am est updated mar 2 2006 11 07am est. But i have seen something different. 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. 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 are about to experience perhaps the most profound vacuum. 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. To answer the question of whether there is a glass ceiling or a sticky floor i e. 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. Author affiliations article information. Eileen barrett md mph 2.