Glass Ceiling and Glass Elevator
(2015) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies — ISBN: [978-1-4051-9694-9], published
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- The glass ceiling metaphor refers to the hidden obstacles that, despite formal gender equality at work, contribute to maintain women in the lower positions of the professional ladder. Research has uncovered a complex set of factors that focus either on women themselves or on contextual elements, such as social norms, and organizational practices that explain this phenomenon. Contrary to women, men in female dominated jobs benefit from a so-called glass elevator or glass escalator, that is, a set of invisible factors that facilitates their professional advancement. Both phenomena can be opposed through the adoption of a gender mainstreaming strategy. Nevertheless, as long as they are viewed as the result of an intricate set of sexist lay theories and practices integrated in the world of work, wider changes, going far beyond the labor market, must intervene so as to attain actual equality at the top of the hierarchy.
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Casini, A. (2015). Glass Ceiling and Glass Elevator. In Nancy Naples, Renee C Hoogland, Maithree Wickramasinghe, Angela Wong (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663219