SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: X Window System, Glass Ceiling, Escalator
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When we come to believe that this is the way things should be, we have internalized the role: gender roles as mechanisms of social control: they introduce predictability into our lives/behavior. When people start deviating from social gender roles, people take offense to it. It looks strange when one gender goes into a profession in which the other is dominant. Soc 302: glass ceiling glass escalator (christine williams): the glass ceiling is an invisible barrier. It applies to women who are in male-dominant professions (you start moving up, and all of a sudden you hit a glass ceiling). The glass escalator is the opposite of the glass ceiling. They go all the way to the top. Men who went into traditionally female occupations: people at the top, tend to be men (even if there are more women in the profession. )
