glass ceiling
nounDefinition of glass ceiling
: an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions
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There's no more talk, as there was in 2016, of glass ceilings and all this stuff. — NBC News, "Aug. 18, 2019 - Larry Kudlow, Beto O'Rourke and Mark Sanford," 18 Aug. 2019 And since Joan Rivers broke the glass ceiling in 1986 on Fox, only a handful of women have followed in her footsteps. — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, "‘Late Night’ imagines a world where a woman has been hosting late-night comedy for decades. If only.," 14 June 2019 Always being the minority can feel alienating, but being able to break the glass ceiling and open up doors for other Black women makes it a positive and rewarding experience. — Aimee Simeon, refinery29.com, "Brianna Mason On Her Historic Miss Tennessee Win: "Representation Is So Important"," 5 July 2019 Many women complain about the glass ceiling, even though young Vietnamese women are now better educated than men. — The Economist, "Vietnam has one of the highest shares of women in work in the world," 8 June 2019 With more glass ceilings left to shatter, the women covering the San Francisco Giants are determined to see more progress come to fruition. — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, "Giants’ women broadcasters signal change in baseball’s old boys’ club," 12 July 2019 The modish decor includes brightly colored furniture, vaulted glass ceilings, and meeting rooms named for the Millennium Falcon and Hogwarts Express. — Alison Griswold, Quartz, "Paris is pitching itself as the next-best thing for tech startups," 3 July 2019 LaPolt said with a shrug, noting the glass ceiling would not apply to her. — Leila Cobo, Billboard, "Dina LaPolt Tackles Spotify, Songwriter Rights and Sexism In Spirited Midem Talk," 6 June 2019 Its atrium, an airy indoor room more than 30 feet tall and punctuated by one of Johnson’s trademark elliptical skylights, provides dazzling transparency via its glass ceiling and walls. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "Is Northwestern’s new medical research building a world-class structure? The building, and the answer, are incomplete.," 13 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'glass ceiling.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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