ty have created a "glass ceiling" that prevents women from advancing at the same pace as men. Men are brought up to expect that women, in general, will be noncompetitive and willing to defer to the male point of view. Those women who willingly compete are often given uncomplimentary labels.
The glass ceiling is evident in working class occupations as well as executive positions. Much industrial work continues to be dehumanizing and alienating for workers, and especially so for women. Women in factories are given the jobs that men don't want: "There was only one type of job women did in the factories--the fast, picky shitwork" (Tepperman 116). The preference of factory owners has always been to create class divisions based on mental/manual splits (Weston and Rofel 211). Women workers, hindered by less access to training programs and less seniority than their male counterparts, generally find themselves relegated to positions with minimal hope for promotion.
Regardless of race or occupational status, women face disc
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