Blog Post # 8

      Men in female-dominated professions such as nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship and social work, experience a "glass escalator" effect. Because they able to advance further and faster, due to the quickly promotion, into the top positions. It is happens due to the traditional gender role and stereotypes; that men are expected to be in the chief roles.

    Men were preferred in hiring, and were pushed toward administration, faster than female in jobs that are traditionally associated with women. Being a male provided an advantage in promotion, most of the men were get their job because of  their gender. Williams states, "In several cases, the more female-dominated the specialty, the greater the apparent preference for men....... a  Massachusetts nurse said, No no, none.....I've heart this from managers and supervisory-type people with men in pediatrics: "It's nice to have a men because it's such a female-dominated profession" (213). "...a social work professor said she would like to see more men enter the social work profession, particularly in the clinical specialty(where they are underrepresented)"(218). It appears that women were preferred to see men enter women occupations.
     Women who entering traditionally male professions were face negative stereotypes at work. "Because women felt unaccepted by their male colleagues, one of the last thing they wanted to do was to emphasize their gender. Some women thought that, if they kept company with other women, this would highlight their gender and would further isolate them from male cadets. These women desperately wanted to be accepted as cadets, not as women cadets" (Williams 216). On the other hand "Men in nontraditional occupation face a different scenario- their gender is construed as a  positive difference. Therefore, they have an incentive to bond together and emphasize their distinctiveness from the female majority"(Williams 216). Men in female-dominant professions experience a "glass escalator effect", but the women in same professions face "glass celling" effect.
     Women who enter male field, where threated in a deferent way, from the men who were enter womens professions. Unlike men, women where faced discrimination in the male field. But men do not face discrimination in male field professions. Men in these professions often work under the direct supervision of other men, and their colleagues are also were men. But the women who entered male dominant professions, feel unacceptable by their male colleagues.Carothers and Crull in 1984 stated that: "Women report feeling excluded from informal leadership and decision- making networks, and they sense hostility from their male co-workers, which makes them feel uncomfortable and unwanted" (Williams 215).

Williams, Christine L. " The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in
       the "Female" Professions".Men's Lives. 5th ed. Ed.Michael. S. Kimmel
       and Michael A. Massner. New York: Allen & Bacon.2001. 211-224. Print.