“Sticky floor” is a term used as a discriminatory pattern of employment that restricts certain groups of people from rising through the different job ranks, keeping them in low-level positions. This term “sticky floor” is an extension of the term “bamboo ceiling” , also a phrase implemented onto…

The term “bamboo ceiling” refers to the barriers set to exclude Asian Americans from reaching positions of power in business and cultural enterprises. “Bamboo ceiling” is an extension of the term “glass ceiling” which was created and placed on women to prevent them from moving up the hierarchy…