Glass Ceiling Theory

In the United States today, 38% of children in the fourth grade have been recognized as reading way below the level of their peers. Many of these children are identified with a learning disability and receive remedial instruction in the resource rooms. (Aaron, P. G., Joshi, R., Gooden, R., & Rentum, K. E.)

The glass ceiling is the metaphorical representation of the difficulties minorities, and women face when attempting to move to higher levels of the organization hierarchy (Berry & Franks, 2010; Johns, 2013). Though commonly used to refer to the invisible and implied limits put on women, the other minorities whose upward mobility is restricted by the glass ceiling are discriminated on the basis of race, age, or sexual orientation (Johns, 2013). The glass ceiling also includes the life issues that the minorities such as women have to balance with their work as they seek to advance in the workplace.

As per the results it can be seen that the approximate percentage of women employed in the banking sector and IT sector comes within the bracket of 15%-40% the same being confirmed in the pie chart thereby showing that the percentage of women employed in both the sectors are not more than 40%.

Deaf students in the mainstream look like they are doing well even if they are not. He begins talking about survival skills such as the “Yes head” or “deaf nod.” Others included being last in line to see what other kids are doing to mimic them to “fool” the teacher and copying facial expressions in class. Most class learning was done by books; again like the student I met at RIPIN. Drolsbaugh stated rather look stupid than deaf; would rather fit in with the stupid people then having people watch the communication struggle. He then went into talking about introjection; internalizing behaviors, morals, and beliefs that one grew up with. This is what he believes happens to Deaf students. They are told they must wear hearing aids, sit in front, and read lips. If they forgot their hearing aids, they would get in trouble. Staff would also introduce kids in this sort of way stating “Susie she cannot hear.” Susie then sees the negative language about herself and internalized it. He stated that Deaf people are told to assimilate to the hearing world and that person should deny their deaf

It is known that hearing people are superior to Deaf people. No one can sit and prove it, but you can tell how a hearing person acts compared to how a deaf person acts when they walk into a room. The hearing people are chit-chatting and enjoying their time. The deaf person is looking around trying to read lips but deep down is feeling isolated. Most Deaf people understand that they are equal to hearing people and should not feel discriminated against. Deaf people sometimes still get treated different, but most of the world is starting to treat them equally. They have been able to get more employment, higher education, and higher job positions. In Bernard Bragg’s book, “Lessons in Laughter: The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor”, he expressed

According to criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, “… crime is the inevitable result of disorder.” (qtd. In Gladwell, paragraph 2). Wilson and Kelling are the masterminds behind The Broken Windows theory. The theory states that is a window is left unfixed after it is broken, people will come to the conclusion that there is no control. If that happens, more windows will be broken signifying that anything can happen. Dress code violations, mass shootings, and police brutality encounters are examples of broken windows.

In 1982, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling presented an article that called for a change in police tactics to enhance neighborhood safety entitled simply “Broken Windows”. This article was hailed as the godsend that everyone was waiting for because at the time crime rates were extremely high and murder had peaked just two years prior to the release of this article. Wilson and Kelling declare that a return to “order-maintenance” police function is the key to providing safe neighborhoods (Kelling and Wilson 104). This is achieved through foot patrol officers that enact regulations for their patrol areas which keep individuals in their place and “strengthen the informal social control mechanisms of natural communities” (Kelling and Wilson

In 1968 Rosenthal and Jacobson visited an elementary school and gave IQ tests to all of the students. They ended up randomly picking 20% of the students in the school and identified them as having especially high potential for academic achievement. As the school year went on towards the end the students ended up getting retested. The students who were labeled as bright earlier in the year ended up scoring higher than their peers. The teachers had high expectations for these students which could have led to the students seeing different material which expected more from them. The children most likely acted different also after they found out what was expected from them. So, all of the expectations that everyone had for these children actually

I had the opportunity to interview a colleague of mine Brenda, who is a teacher in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing department at our school. Brenda herself is Deaf and was raised by Deaf parents, which benefited her greatly. She began at the Institute for the Deaf and Blind, now known as Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, from preschool to tenth grade. Brenda told me that by the time she had become a tenth grader the school district in Montana was more willing to accept a student who was Deaf. Before this time without the proper legislation like the IDEA law, school districts did not have provide free and appropriate education. Even though she was permitted to attend a mainstream high school, she only took elective type classes. She said that

The glass ceiling is an invisible barrier preventing women and minorities from advancing into upper management (Bell 67). Despite extensive legislation and the widespread implementation of equal opportunity policies, there is still widespread structural inequality and job segregation in organizations throughout the United States. "The level of the `glass ceiling' varies among organizations and is reflected in different employment patterns, hiring practices, and promotion plans" (Adler 451). The purpose of this paper is to provide background as well as a more in-depth analysis of the glass ceiling phenomenon and apply a human-capitalistic theorist perspective to the issues.

The Pentagon’s decision to allow women to fight in the front lines is a major step in the equal rights between the two sexes because women are just as able to fight in the front lines just as men.

In their 1995 book Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, Tyack and Cuban explained that the idea of a “retarded” student began in the mid-nineteenth century. Such students were originally defined as those who were slow learners and unable to promote to the next age-appropriate grade alongside their peers. The concept of different children developing at different rates led to the formation of the IQ test. The categorization of students by their level of intelligence followed suit. By the early twentieth century, special schools were developed for retarded children to provide them with opportunities for intellectual growth equal to those of their peers. As the twentieth century wore on and racial

It is no secret or surprise that women have always, and continue to be paid less than men in the workplace. Not only that, but women are also put in low-status jobs, no matter their qualifications; a lot of women are put in a box when it comes to their jobs or careers. It is mind-blowing that women are still facing inequality when it comes to work, considering we are living in very liberal times. Women in work tend to go unnoticed, it might be because our nation and our world are so used to women usually getting the shorter end of the stick, but it needs to be talked about more if we want equality.

Although it’s known that higher education will help you to reach aspirations of succeeding higher paying jobs, “At every level of academic achievement, women’s median earnings are less than men’s median earnings, and in some cases, the gender pay gap is larger at higher levels of education (Miller, Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, p4)”. This basically means that even with earning a high degree, and working extremely hard to get there, women still face the obstacle of earning less than men, so you could go through years of schooling but you will never obtain the equality of pay. For women, “A college degree does not guarantee an equal increase in earnings compared with male graduates from the same college (Flores, 2016)”; women may have

In America many groups have fought hard to gain equality in treatment, rights, and everyday living standards. Women are included amongst these groups. At one point in history women were not allowed to vote or carry the same positions as men in work. Due to amendments and affirmative action these hindrances for women have been abolished. What still remains to day is the inner struggle within jobs also known as glass ceilings? Glass ceilings are daily obstacles for most women in their jobs every day. As country of equal opportunity should we Americans continue to fight for more equality or accept the situation and be grateful for the change that has already come into place?