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词汇 glass cliff
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Definition of glass cliff in English:

glass cliff

noun

  • Used with reference to a situation in which a woman or member of a minority group ascends to a leadership position in challenging circumstances where the risk of failure is high.

    we don't know if women face the glass cliff in tech more than other industries
    even where women do manage to break through the glass ceiling, they fall off the glass cliff
    as modifier the glass cliff phenomenon

Origin

2004: coined by psychologists Michelle Ryan and Alex Haslam on the pattern of glass ceiling.

Definition of glass cliff in US English:

glass cliff

noun

  • Used with reference to a situation in which a woman or member of a minority group ascends to a leadership position in challenging circumstances where the risk of failure is high.

    we don't know if women face the glass cliff in tech more than other industries
    even where women do manage to break through the glass ceiling, they fall off the glass cliff
    as modifier the glass cliff phenomenon

Origin

2004: coined by psychologists Michelle Ryan and Alex Haslam on the pattern of glass ceiling.
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