THE GLASS ESCALATOR:

HIDDEN ADVANTAGES FOR

MEN IN THE ‘FEMALE
By: PROFESSIONS
1.Fatin Amirah Binti Mohd Hanapiah
2.Nurul Syuhada Binti Zolkeppley
3. Nurul Adibah Aqilah Binti Abd Nasir
4.Wan Nur Suffiyah Binti
5. Nur Haliza Aini Binti
6.Syafiqah Amira Binti Ahmad Bakhari
 Introduction
 Most studies of sex segregation in the work force
on women’s experiences in male-dominated
occupation. But the fact is that men are less likely
to enter female sex-typed occupations than
women are to enter male-dominated jobs.
 Then the men’s under representation in four

predominantly female occupations

i.Nursing
ii.librianship
iii.Elementary school teaching
iv.social work
The Trekking Field
 The tracking may bar men from the most female-
identified within these professional.
 Examples :
i. A kindergarten teacher described the difficulty of
finding a job in his specialty after graduation.
ii. Some rural Texas school districts refused to hire
men in the youngest grsdes (K-3).
 The Effect of Tracked
 Glass ceiling
-A glass ceiling in an organisation is an
unofficially bar to the promotion of certain types
of staff, normally women. It is called glass
because its not obviously there, but it is in fact.
 Glass escalator
-A glass escalator is an unofficial fast track
promotion of certain types of staff, usually men,
within an organisation. This is typical in female
dominated organisations where men seem to
have preferment.
 TOPIC GLASS GLASS
ESCALATOR CEILING
Discrimination Factor: most of the men getting job
because of their sex.
in Hiring Examples :
•They do not need to work hard to go
more higher.
•One of four Liberians' who had lost
their job from high school get better
job in junior high because he is a
male compare to 3 woman who are
place in elementary school.
•Some of universities viewed the
position of nursing dean as a
guaranteed female appointment in an
otherwise heavily male-dominated
administration.
•Effect :
-For many men, leaving the most
female-identified areas of their
professions helped them resolve
internal conflicts involving their
masculinity.
Supervisors and • Men in nontraditional face a • In particular, women report
different scenario-their gender feeling excluded from
colleagues is construed as a positive informal leadership and
difference. decision-making networks,
and they sense hostility from
•One of the California nurse, their male co-workers, which
whose performance was makes them feel
judged marginal by his nursing uncomfortable and unwanted.
supervisors, was transferred to
the emergency room due to his •Men are over represented in
personal relationship with the admistrative and managerial
physician in charge. capacities, or, as in the case of
nursing, their positions in the
• A social work professor said organizational hierarchy are
that she would like to see more governed by men.
men enter the social network
profession, particularly in the •Unlike women who enter
clinical specialty. ‘male fields’, the men in these
professions often work under
•It appears that women are the direct supervision of other
generally eager to see men men.
enter ‘their’occupations.
• Writing about military
academies, for example, Yoder
describe the failure of token
women to mentor succeeding
generations of the female
cadets.

•Women feel unacceptable by

their male colleagues.

•Some women thought that, if

they kept company with
another women, this would
highlight their gender and
would further isolate from
male cadets. These women
desperately wanted to be
accepted as cadets, not as
women cadets.
Discrimination from • popular prejudices can be
damaging to self –esteem and
“Outsiders” probably push some men out
of these professions
altogether.

• a librarians formerly in
charge of branch library’s
children’s collection, who
now works in the reference
department of the city’s main
library, describes his
experience which were he
moved to the better job when
some people complained that
they didn’t want to have a
man doing the story telling
scenario.

• The negative stereotypes

about men who do ;women’s
work’ can push men out of
specific jobs.

•
 Conclusion
 Both men and women who work in nontraditional
occupations encounter discrimination, but the forms
and consequences of this discrimination are very
different.
 Men who enter these professions are often considered
‘failure’ or sexual deviants
 Women entering traditionally ‘male’ profession also
face negative stereotypes suggesting they are not ‘real
women’.