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: --
There probably is a limit to the height that a school can reach, but that glass ceiling is always higher than the school thinks.
The glass ceiling may have become a little more fragile, but it is still in place.
We need to be sensitive to the rights of women in work to encourage them to break through the infamous glass ceiling.
Other issues include women in prison—there are far too many—women as carers, women in the national health service, women in poverty and the glass ceiling.
There would not be a glass ceiling for executive women in business.
There was no glass ceiling for those who married; they received the bank's good wishes, and their employment automatically ended.
The encouraging point is that even after our decision, the glass ceiling had been broken.
We need to step up our efforts to stamp out unequal pay, violence, the glass ceiling, discrimination and poverty.
