Provide an example of the glass escalator.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Varies. An example of the glass escalator would be male nurses getting more pay or preferable hours of work and being asked to be the floor manager even if he has less experience than women nurses, and so on.
KEY: Learning Objective: 10.4: Explain the sociological roots of the gender wage gap.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Gender and Economics: Men, Women, and the Gender Wage Gap
Difficulty Level: Easy
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