The glass floor and the glass wall
Abstract
Many believe men have power and women are victims. But when stigmatized prisoners, war-torn soldiers, and disabled laborers look up, the Glass Ceiling they experience is the Glass Floor women walk upon. For every one CEO there have been many POWs. The Glass Wall requires understanding that to avoid being shut out from the world of physical-and-emotional intimacy, men endure hardships and even risk death to gain entrance. A world in which the Glass Ceiling is eliminated while the Glass Floor and Wall continues is not a world of gender equality. Gylany—a world in which women are often more-than, but never less-than men—is the beginning of female supremacy and the end of equal partnership.
Keywords: equalism, gender politics, glass floor, glass wall, gylany
Author Biography
Tim Goldich is the president of the Chicago chapter of the National Coalition for Men and an avid member of the ManKind Project, two organizations that variously support men politically and emotionally. He is also an educator and mentor to boys on their way to becoming men. Goldich facilitates the personal growth work of men on New Warrior Training Adventure weekends and of men and women on personal growth weekends called Path to Spirit. He is the author of four books, including Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics.
