glass ceiling

Danish translation: glasloft

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English term or phrase:glass ceiling
Danish translation:glasloft

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11:53 Dec 5, 2008
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Social Sciences - Government / Politics
Additional field(s): Human Resources, Management
English term or phrase: glass ceiling
Definition from inmotionmagazine.com:
Glass ceilings are the artificial barriers that deny women and minorities the opportunity to advance within their careers

Example sentence(s):
  • Even before The Wall Street Journal coined the term "glass ceiling" 20 years ago, researchers debated why women seldom reach the highest ranks in business. Forbes.com
  • "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," Hillary Clinton told a huge rally of supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington. smh.com.au
  • The potential is there for women to achieve an equal footing with men, but the social mores and male attitudes make an effective barrier to women rising above a certain point; this tendency brings to mind a glass ceiling. Feminism and Women's Studies
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glasloft
Definition:
et loft baseret på holdningsmæssige eller organisatoriske bias i arbejdsstyrken, der forhindrer minoriteter og kvinder fra
frem til lederstillinger
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Trine Mühlhausen
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glasloft


Definition from W3 Dictionary:
et loft baseret på holdningsmæssige eller organisatoriske bias i arbejdsstyrken, der forhindrer minoriteter og kvinder fra
frem til lederstillinger

Example sentence(s):
  • Men når man bevæger sig et eller flere niveauer op, kan langt de fleste kvinder kun se til gennem det glasloft, som skiller dem fra de virkelige topposter. - Information.dk  
  • Man taler også om, at kvinderne rammer et glasloft, hvilket er et billede på en vanskelig situation, hvor kvinden kan se muligheder foran sig, men hun er forment adgang og kan ikke passere glasloftet. Dette fænomen rammer den enkelte kvinde, men det rammer også forestillingen om muligheder hos mange kvinder, og det giver en forestilling om et lukket land, som ikke er rimelig. - Jobzonen.dk  
Trine Mühlhausen
Greece
Native speaker of: Danish
PRO pts in category: 4

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