Crossword clues for glass ceiling
glass ceiling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) An unwritten, codify barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific demographic group.
WordNet
n. a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions
Wikipedia
A glass ceiling is a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given demographic (typically applied to women) from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.
The metaphor was first coined by feminists in reference to barriers in the careers of high-achieving women. In the USA, the concept is sometimes extended to refer to obstacles hindering the advancement of minority men, as well as women. For Asia, as well as Asian-American workers, they have coined the term " bamboo ceiling".
Usage examples of "glass ceiling".
Attached to this tilted glass ceiling surface were scarlet chairs and a table and pens and paper casually on the table, scarlet cushions on the chairs, making it seem the 900r, a false door nearby, almost ajar&hellip.
Dylan nearly stopped midrestaurant to study her and to lock in his memory every detail of the way she looked at this moment in the dialed-down, bevel-sheared light from the cut-glass ceiling fixtures, for he wanted to paint her eventually just as she stood now.
She saw the sun before she saw anything else, as she entered the library-the great blessed flood of yellow light filling the glass conservatory beyond the open doors, a dazzle amid the ferns, and in the dancing water of the fountain and in the great mesh of green leaves curling beneath the glass ceiling.
I lay there gasping, staring at the brilliant reflection of the fire in the glass ceiling, and feeling the air fill my lungs, and I realized I was crying again, broken heart edly, like a child.
I lay there gasping, staring at the brilliant reflection of the fire in the glass ceiling, and feeling the air fill my lungs, and I realized I was crying again, broken heartedly, like a child.
A wide-open space, bright and clean, a hall larger by far than the Great Hall, with that clear domed glass ceiling.
The sun crept into view above the little courtyard's glass ceiling, filling it with golden light, and began its slow reversal.
We passed, without formality, into the terminal and across a zone of micro-climate where palms and other less recognisable tropicalia made a bid for the massive glass ceiling.
The four towers at the corners and the huge room at the center were clearly drawn, as was the design of the glass ceiling, but the rooms and passages on either side of the main corridor were unmarked.
He lit a cigarette and raised his eyes towards the domed glass ceiling.
Though only an illusion of what was going on outside, a shell had just exploded against the skin of the ship and we had seen it without any obstacles to our view, as if fireworks had exploded ten feet over our heads and sparkled over a glass ceiling.