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What is the Glass Ceiling? - Coggle Diagram
What is the Glass Ceiling?
In general
Glass Ceiling is an invisible barrier which prevents that people in executive-level positions within an organisation or industry can be promoted.
Glass Ceiling describes difficulties, women and minorities are faced with when trying to get a higher position in the hierachy.
Mostly the barriers are unwritten, meaning that these people are more likely to be restricted.
Understanding the Glass Ceiling
Marilyn Loden first coined the phrase "glass ceiling" at the Women´s Exposition 1978 in New York. She talked about how women were blame for the barriers preventing them from advancing in their carriers.
Women historically were occuped from positions of authority.
The concept of this phenomenon was popularized in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article writing the coporate hierachy and the invisible barriers for women.
After an expandation of the concept, minoities are include to the glass ceiling.
Companies in the USA have focused on increasing diversity to improve the equaliy gap.
At the end of 2020, women accounted for 55.9% of the labor force in the USA.
But when it came to managing or executive positions, women held only 29.9% of these positions and 88% of executives identified as white, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Research shows that diverse groups can work more successful than homogeneous groups.
History of the Glass Ceiling
The Glass Ceiling Commission was founded 1991 by the U.S. Department of Labor.
They found that qualified women and minorities were being denied the oportunity to win decision-making positions.
They foung out that perceptions of employees and employers often included stereotypes.
2020 was the highest number ever of female CEOs. On the total list it is still only 7,4%.
The Glass Ceiling vs. The Glass Cliff
Glass Cliff is a related term to Glass Ceiling. During times of crises, when failure is more likely, women tend to be promoted to positions of power.
While the glass ceiling is a barrier to reaching higher executive levels within their organisations or industries, the class cliff is a tendency to promote women into precarious positions.
It is like they are at risk of falling off a cliff and are in the need of people with power.