Blog post # 8

 Thesis: Men being in "female professions" is not always an advantage.

Williams, Christine L. "The glass Escalator: Hidden advantages for men in the "Female" Professions". Men's lives, 5th ed. S Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, Ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon,  2001, 211-224, Print

      This article talks about what goes on in the work force that isn't seen but it is felt. In other words, unsaid but done. When men enter female professions there is an "escalator effect" which automatically pushes them up to administration. As that may seem positive their is also a negative side to it because men trying to get into "female professions" undergo social pressures. Williams also talks about women facing a "glass ceiling" which keeps them from going into higher positions which is the opposite of how men would be treated. 

This source is useful and credible. Dr. Christine L. Williams is the Department Chair Professor of the Department of Sociology of College Liberal Arts. And we can believe in the research because in the article there are references of where the research was found.

This source has valuable information. It can connect well with the thesis. The article talks about social pressure men undergo before getting into the profession and while being in it.A quote that really backs up my theses is when he says  "Men who enter these professions are considered "failures" or deviants..... these stereotypes do not seem to deter women to the same degree that they deter men from pursuing nontraditional professions" (221). It also talks about men not always wanting to be pushed up into administration. One reason being that they have more responsibilities which they don't want to take on sometimes and the second reason being that what they studied in college to be is something they won't be able to do.