Ceiling

Glass Ceiling

In recent decades, women and people of color have made considerable progress in moving into management jobs, but they tend to be concentrated in lower and middle levels in the management hierarchy. Particularly at large, private sector companies, the majority of key senior-management positions are still held by Caucasian men. The term glass ceiling is

Glass Ceiling

The term glass ceiling was introduced in the 1980s to refer to an informal but effective limit on how high women could rise in a work organization. This ceiling was “glass” in that women could see above this transparent barrier, and in fact might not realize it was there, until they found they could go