While women are disadvantaged in male-dominated workplaces, men benefit from their status in female-dominated fields. In particular, the pay structure of men in female-dominated professions favors men (Buding, 2002). Cognard-Black (2004) asserts that “gender as a major structural stratification mechanism privileges men in various setting compositions” (p. 134) Such in the case in female-dominated lines of work in which the glass-escalator hypothesis rests on notions of discriminatory processes in the workplace (Hultin, 2003). The glass escalator provides a dual benefit for men, a patriarchal dividend or the advantages men in general gain from the subordination of women in the workforce (Connell, 1995, p.79). Whether in male-dominated or female-dominated fields, men are accorded prestige and outpace women in advancement to positions of authority and pay (Schilt, 2006).