gender

• Glass ceiling - invisible barrier that prevents women from advancing to higher positions in their careers, despite being qualified.
• concrete ceiling - The even tougher barriers faced by women of color in advancing their careers into senior management jobs
• Double glazed ceiling - Struggle for queer women in the workplace.

  • Where are all the Women? survey : one in five women said they had left a job when they were younger because it wasn’t inclusive.
• Glass walls - the invisible barriers that isolate women by holding them back in jobs that lack opportunities for advancement. This is subtly done and preventing women from moving into higher-ranking positions.
• Glass cliff - where women and minorities are more likely to be placed in leadership roles during times of crisis or high risk, where the likelihood of failure is greater. This often sets them up for disproportionate blame if things go wrong.
• glass elevator - where men in traditionally female-dominated professions rise to higher positions or leadership roles more quickly and easily than their female counterparts, often due to gendered advantages.