The Sticky Floor

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.

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. If you notice that the entire floor feels sticky under your feet even when the tile has been freshly mopped the culprit is likely the cleaning solution itself as suggested by the cleanest image. The grease released by pan frying gets into the air or ends up on the floor. Expression used as a metaphor to point to a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps workers mainly women in the lower ranks of the job scale with low mobility and invisible barriers to career advancement.

Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses. Most of the time stickiness is caused by residue left behind the adhesive substances such as soft drink glue or grease which by one way or another attached to your floor. In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling. The ph of a chemical is what removes soils from the surface.

Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. Take the kitchen for example.

Luckily in both cases the stickiness is caused by the same issue ph.