glass ceiling

(noun)

An unwritten, uncodified barrier to further promotion or progression for a member of a specific demographic group.

Related Terms

  • Marginalized
  • assimilation
  • Hegemony

Examples of glass ceiling in the following topics:

  • Barriers to Organizational Diversity

    • This misallocation of human resources is called the glass ceiling.
    • The glass ceiling represents an invisible barrier to employees of minority backgrounds, one that keeps them from achieving executive positions in corporations.
    • Though this gap highlights gender inequality in particular, the strength of the empirical data suggests that a glass ceiling could apply to any minority group.
    • Wages grouped by gender and education reveal a "glass ceiling" for women in the workplace, and the wage gap between men and women only grows as educational attainment increases.
  • Culture-Specific Nuances of Human Resources Management

    • If hiring locally eventually becomes a glass ceiling environment, a multinational is likely to substantially reduce the advantages they would have otherwise gained from incorporating cultural variance.
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