Idiom

Glass ceiling

What does "Glass ceiling" mean?

An unacknowledged or unseen discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power.

Glass ceiling

America, 20th century.

An unacknowledged or unseen discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power.

Worldwide.

  • I've more experience, better qualifications and work harder than my male co-workers, yet I still don't get promoted and no one tells me why. I guess that's what they call the glass ceiling.