Would you go to a pub with your boss after a long week working? Would you take your supervisor out to see a football game, and become “friends” in a certain way? No? Too bad, because spending more time with your supervisor outside the work floor can help you to climb higher on the career ladder.When you are a man, you don’t have to worry, because men are more likely to go to a pub with their boss on a Friday evening. But why should you do that? First of all, you always have a good time when you go to a bar. On the other hand, your boss can now make a real judgment about your informal, inter personal skills and abilities.
A woman (let’s call her Suzy) is less likely to spend some social time with her boss, so she will miss some great opportunities to show her abilities. And that’s a major problem. The boss doesn’t know that Suzy possesses those abilities and when he has to make a choice between the well-known man and the unknown Suzy, his choice will be in favour of the man. So women don’t get off the first rung of the career ladder.
It isn’t really the glass ceiling but the sticky floor that prevents women from rising above a certain level.
I think it’s a little bit of both. As well ‘sticky floor’ as ‘glass ceiling’. In the article they speak about a mentoring program to help women to evolve in their career. I believe that’s one solution but there still have to change a lot so that women and men become equal once and for all.
Pieter De Vriendt
As a career woman, your self-esteem and confidence can be your ticket to ride on the fact track to success, or your ticket to sit in the side car to nowhere. No matter how stellar your training, formal education, or tactical skills may be, if you don't have high confidence in yourself, you will not instill it in others.
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