0 a point after which you cannot go any further, usually in improving your position at work:
1 a limit that is unofficial but understood which prevents someone, esp. a woman, from advancing to a top position in a company or organization:
2 something that prevents someone from getting a more important position in their organization:
As dual-career marriages become more common, and particularly as more wives cut through ' the glass ceiling ' into management, it may be that this scenario becomes less acceptable.
However, in order to combat this glass ceiling, targeted action is required now.
In practice, however, many women are still hitting their head against the so-called glass ceiling.
Those of us who have been involved in women's issues for a long time will know the phrase "the glass ceiling" very well.
She also mentioned the glass ceiling in relation to women in management, and that was touched on by other lion.
The ethnic communities will not buy it; feminists are unlikely to trust it as not having a glass ceiling quota.
I think that committee would not like the fact that she has broken through the glass ceiling.
We need to step up our efforts to stamp out unequal pay, violence, the glass ceiling, discrimination and poverty.
