SOCC09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Glass Ceiling, Trans Man, Escalator
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The more clothing you are wearing the smarter people are going to think you are (evidence for women having to wear sleeves when they are presenting or on television: williams- glass escalator . Glass escalator men in female oriented fields profit through the glass escalator in that being able to advance to higher positions faster in female oriented positions because of their sex. Glass ceiling prevents women from advancing in the workforce: glass escalators for: Elementary school teachers (though some discrimination given assumption of sexual abuse as only exerted by men) Men are seen as competent and it is socially constructed in opposition to their female workers. However, if we use an intersectional lens. That the glass escalator doesn"t apply to all men and that it actually applies only to heterosexual white men. It does not happen they are misidentified as janitors and security guards if they were black male nurses, and also were treated with disrespect.
