STICKY FLOOR PHENOMENON IN WOMEN’S CAREER

Abstract

The phenomenon of women on worlforce has become a common thing to be discussed in this era. It can be seen that the number of women in the workforce has been continues to increase. Nevertheless, the number of women in top hierarchy are still very rare. This condition might be caused by sticky floor phenomenon - invisible barrier that cause women's careers to be hampered. This study aims to explore how the sticky floor phenomenon in women's careers. This study using qualitative method with case study approach. The research data were obtained through in depth interviews with six women in of which 3 worked in banks and 3 in the government organization and consist of single, married without children, married have children. This study found that this study found that sticky floor will be increasingly felt when women are married and have children. But naming sticky floor in Indonesia cannot be done because the woman does make her choice in career voluntarily and with an underlying point of view so that even though sticky floor theory in the west is a barrier but in Indonesia it cannot be called a barrier.