Saturday, June 4, 2011

Blogost #8: The Glass Escalator Effect

Men that are in  female professions due to being judge and criticized for having a womens job will desire to get a promotion and move on to a higher position. They are also put on this "glass escalator" due to social pressure  men are encouraged and pressured  to apply for higher positions and are more likely to move up in their job because there's no competition if their in a female profession, also to be in a more dominate position and because men are sometimes perfered. Men seem to have to work harder to stay in the same position then to get a promotion.

 William, L. Christine. "The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions."        Men'sLives. 5th edition. Michael, Messner A. Michael. 5th edition. New York. Allyn & Bacon.211-                    224.2001.Print

The article The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men's in the Female Professions is about men in female professions. Due to the "glass escalator" men are likely to be promoted than females are and can also advance  in a female profession easier.

The author Christine L. Williams studies gender, race and class inequality in the workplace. She teaches course in gender, sexualities, labor and labor movements. Christine L Williams is the Chair of the Publications Committee and the Chair of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association.

The article shows that males have it easier.Christine L.Williams points out that "men are "kicked up the stairs" to more prestige better paying jobs"(212).Men have it both ways because they are not always wanted in a female profession so they are encourage to advance and they also experience affirmative action so they have a job either way.

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