NOUN
- a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions
How To Use glass ceiling In A Sentence
- The campaign of Sen. Clinton is one that will go down in the history books as a great one for our country, breaking what I call the marble ceiling, what they call the glass ceiling. Pelosi Says The Dem Primary Is Over, Declares Obama The "Nominee"
- Various reasons are given for the apparent glass ceiling women hit in many professions.
- The phrase 'glass ceiling' is a fairly recent coinage.
- Actually, the glass ceiling has just gained a non-reflective coating. Times, Sunday Times
- In 1995 the government's Glass Ceiling Commission (the propagandistic title prejudged the subject) saw proof of sex discrimination in the fact that women were only 5 percent of senior managers at Fortune 1000 industrial and Fortune 500 service companies. Lies, Damned Lies And...
- The kitchen is fitted with maple units and display cabinets as well as a breakfast bar, while an adjoining conservatory area has a pitched glass ceiling and another set of patio doors.
- We've got to recognise that many women in our organisation, for example, perceive a glass ceiling.
- In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
- Various reasons are given for the apparent glass ceiling women hit in many professions.
- Highly capable women fill comparable roles in other sectors where the glass ceiling is much less of an issue. Times, Sunday Times
