Blog Post #8

The article “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the “Female” Professions" it discusses about men having Advantages in female’s professions. When men work in "female" profession it seems like they get better facility then females. When it comes to hiring and promotion sometimes men gets the job or they get promoted over women. Like Williams mention on his article “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the “Female” Professions” that “A Texas librarian at a junior high school district " would hire a male over a female."(213).

I trust this because this is a peer reviewed articles that have been published in a book, and the author interviewed so many people based on this article. Christine L. Williams has Ph.D. and she is a professor of the sociology department at the University of Texas. She has a references page that supports her claims on this article.

Everywhere we go we see men have the upper hand. Even in the job field they are the one get promoted before women. The author mentions that men have “discrimination in hiring". He also state men in “The Working Environment" and their" Discrimination from "outsiders".


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. Messner. New York: Allyn & Bacon,2001.211-224.Print.