Glass cliff (Employment discrimination)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)

צוק הזכוכית (אפליה בתעסוקה)

Name (Latin)

Glass cliff (Employment discrimination)

Name (Arabic)

منحدر زجاجي (تمييز في التوظيف)

Other forms of name

Cliff, Glass (Employment discrimination)

Wikidata: Q5567098

Library of congress: sh2007010960

Sources of Information

Work cat.: Managing diversity and the glass cliff, 2007:p. vii (issue that affects not only women but members of other diversity groups based on age, disability, religion, ethnicity, parental status, and sexuality)
Wikipedia, Dec. 21, 2007(Glass cliff; a term coined by Dr Michelle Ryan and Prof Alex Haslam of Exeter University, in 2004; their research demonstrates that once women break through the glass ceiling and take on positions of leadership they often have experiences that are different from their male counterparts; women are more likely to occupy positions that can be described as precarious and thus have a higher risk of failure; extending the metaphor of the glass ceiling, they evoke the metaphor of the glass cliff to capture the subtlety to the phenomenon and feeling of teetering on the edge)

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