glass ceiling
Noun
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Noun
glass ceiling (plural glass ceilings)
- (idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific demographic group.
- 2007 Jan. 5, "Six thousand women missing from boardrooms, politics and courts ↗," The Guardian (UK), p. 1:
- Women are “woefully” under-represented in parliament, the courts and the boardroom, with new research showing that the glass ceiling is still holding back 6,000 women from the top 33,000 jobs in Britain.
- 2007 Jan. 5, "Six thousand women missing from boardrooms, politics and courts ↗," The Guardian (UK), p. 1:
- French: plafond de verre
- German: Gläserne Decke
- Portuguese: telhado de vidro
- Russian: стекля́нный потоло́к
- Spanish: techo de cristal
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