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- Glass ceilings are the artificial barriers that deny women and minorities the opportunity to advance within their careers inmotionmagazine.com
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- 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
![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/wikiwords/small_grey_arr.gif) - "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
![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/wikiwords/small_grey_arr.gif) - 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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