glass ceiling
noun
: an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions
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As companies and governments have made progress in recent decades to close the gender pay gap, young female entrants to the workforce might have felt safe in the assumption that the glass ceiling had been smashed.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 3 June 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s new president-elect, has broken the ultimate glass ceiling in a country more commonly known for its machismo.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
Don't hide because the world has put labels and boxes and glass ceilings.
—Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
If Aso backs her, Kamikawa could break through the highest of Japan’s glass ceilings.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 23 May 2024
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 3 June 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s new president-elect, has broken the ultimate glass ceiling in a country more commonly known for its machismo.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
Don't hide because the world has put labels and boxes and glass ceilings.
—Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
If Aso backs her, Kamikawa could break through the highest of Japan’s glass ceilings.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 23 May 2024
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“Glass ceiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glass%20ceiling. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.
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