December 13 2017by gozzter.
Sticky floor metaphor.
Whereas the glass ceiling evokes the idea of a barrier preventing access to management grades the sticky floor focuses attention on the first stage of progression where discrimination can be experienced.
In the literature on gender discrimination the concept of sticky floors complements the concept of a glass ceiling.
I ve always liked the poetry of metaphor with its imagery revealing nuances hiding shyly in the background.
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.
Trippingly on the tongue.
Whose undoing is not so much out there but in here.
Words alone sometimes convey their meanings too narrowly whereas metaphors allow imagination to roam more freely only loosely tethered to definitions.
The sticky floor metaphor is one where women somehow hold themselves back either unwittingly or by design.