The Sticky Floor

Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses.

The sticky floor.

Luckily in both cases the stickiness is caused by the same issue ph. 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. Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. The grease released by pan frying gets into the air or ends up on the floor.

The ph of a chemical is what removes soils from the surface. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. 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. In both cases a different cleaning solution is needed to remove the tacky film.

In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling. The sticky floor refers to women who occupy low paying low mobility positions such as clerical and administrative assistants mental health care and child care workers and service and. Salt residue will make a floor sticky. 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.

Take the kitchen for example.