{"id":5694,"date":"2013-11-13T14:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=5694"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:35:33","slug":"glass-escalator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/11\/13\/glass-escalator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Precarity of the &quot;Glass Escalator&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Christine L. Williams, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/gas.sagepub.com\/content\/27\/5\/609.abstract\">&ldquo;The Glass Escalator, Revisited: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times,&rdquo; <em>Gender &#038; Society<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2013<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Twenty years ago, Christine Williams wrote \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3096961\">The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the \u2018Female\u2019 Professions<\/a>,\u201d examining how gender inequality operates in traditionally sex segregated, predominantly female occupations such as nursing, teaching, librarianship, and social work. She found that men in these occupations were often \u201cfast-tracked\u201d to higher administrative and management positions, and she called this process the \u201cglass escalator.\u201d Williams\u2019s study provided an important complement to analyses of the \u201cglass ceiling\u201d&#8212;the invisible threshold in the organizational hierarchy above which women would rarely be promoted.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent issue of <i>Gender &amp; Society<\/i>, Williams returns to her earlier work to see what\u2019s changed. She finds that the glass escalator remains for men in female-dominated professions, although it operates differently based on identity and on the current economic climate.<\/p>\n<p>Williams concedes that the glass escalator operates most clearly in relation to white men in stable middle-class jobs. Further, the glass escalator only operates in organizations with stable employment, job hierarchies, and career ladders&#8212;all aspects of work that have changed drastically over the past decade. She argues, \u201cWe need new metaphors to understand the persistence of male privilege in the flexible, project-based, and flatter neoliberal organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine L. Williams, &ldquo;The Glass Escalator, Revisited: Gender Inequality in Neoliberal Times,&rdquo; Gender &#038; Society, 2013 Twenty years ago, Christine Williams wrote \u201cThe Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the \u2018Female\u2019 Professions,\u201d examining how gender inequality operates in traditionally sex segregated, predominantly female occupations such as nursing, teaching, librarianship, and social work. She found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,14],"tags":[26919,1005,37335,26916,26917,37333,26918,814,19406,76],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-inequality","category-race","tag-christine-l-williams","tag-employment","tag-gender","tag-longitudinal-study","tag-organization","tag-race","tag-reading-list","tag-recession","tag-ses","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}