Glass Escalator Research Paper

The glass escalator is the differences in uphill advancement between men and woman in the work force, mainly in the female dominated workplaces. The glass escalator is rising up in the workforce in female and male work force.For example some jobs that go along with the glass escalator would be teaching, nursing, and a doctor. The men in these careers rise faster in a female dominated job, but when it comes to women in a male dominant work force they don't rise as fast.Gender stratification is the unequal access to power based off of their sex. The reason for this being is that people think that men do a better job. When technically they are doing the same job. An example of this is, He works. She works. Both are physicians-a high status occupation with considerable financial rewards. …show more content…
(Schaefer,270) The glass ceiling refers to an invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual’s gender, race, or ethnicity. (Schaefer,269) This being said a woman and a man can have the same job, if there is a promotion up for grabs the man is more likly to get it than the women.As the book states In the United States Worldwide,women hold less than 1 percent of corporate managerial positions. This is the reason why women get feminist is because they think both men and women should get paid the same amount. Feminism is the belief in social economic, and political equality for women.(Schaefer, 272) While women can be feminist there are people that can be sexist. Sexism is the ideology that one sex is superior to the other. (Schaefer,267) Gender stratification is the unequal access to power based off of their sex. Gender stratification is on the same lines of the glass ceiling. They both have to deal with the amount of power a person gets. The men in the workforce get paid more than woman. That is how it has always been, and will probably always be that