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Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences with Women's Work
Adia Harvey Wingfield*
Georgia State University
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: aharvey{at}gsu.edu.
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Many men who work in women’s professions experience a glass escalator effect that facilitates their advancement and upward mobility within these fields. Research finds that subtle aspects of the interactions, norms, and expectations in women’s professions push men upward and outward into the higher-status, higher-paying, more "masculine" positions within these fields. Although most research includes minority men, little has explicitly considered how racial dynamics color these men’s encounters with the mechanisms of the glass escalator. In this article, the author examines how intersections of race and gender combine to shape experiences for minority men in the culturally feminized field of nursing and finds that the upward mobility implied by the glass escalator is not uniformly available to all men who do "women’s work." The author concludes that the glass escalator is a racialized concept and a gendered one and considers the implications of this for future studies of men in feminized occupations.
First published on August 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/0891243208323054
Gender & Society 2009;23:5.
A more recent version of this article appeared on February 1, 2009
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