The Sticky Floor

Most of the time stickiness is caused by residue left behind the adhesive substances such as soft drink glue or grease which by one way or another attached to your floor.

The sticky floor.

The term sticky floor is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale. Expression used as a metaphor to point to a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps workers mainly women in the lower ranks of the job scale with low mobility and invisible barriers to career advancement. The ph of a chemical is what removes soils from the surface. Salt residue will make a floor sticky.

Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Take the kitchen for example.

The sticky floor concept is as the name describes implying there is less of a glass ceiling than one may have thought previously but rather as a woman that i am somehow unknowingly sabotaging my own efforts to achieve that senior level position. Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. Luckily in both cases the stickiness is caused by the same issue ph. The grease released by pan frying gets into the air or ends up on the floor.

In both cases a different cleaning solution is needed to remove the tacky film.