a glass ceiling refers to a barrier between what one wants to acheive and oneself, usually created by society's expectations of what one can or can't do as part of a particular group, race of gender....
A glass ceiling in an organisation is an unofficially bar to the promotion of certain types of staff, normally women. It is called glass because its not obviously there, but it is in fact.
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The concept glass ceiling refers to the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or...
It means there's a (mostly invisible) limit to how high you can go. The expression is used mostly in a corporate environment. Some women find that they can't get promoted beyond a certain level of...