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When you hear the word “glass ceiling” what do you think of? Most people don’t know what the meaning of the glass ceiling is. In the article it will give you more of an understanding of the word glass ceiling. The topics that will be discussed are the history of the glass ceiling and of the word, why I think the glass ceiling exists in some corporate companies, have things progressed or regressed, and the effect the glass ceiling would have on a career that you might choose as an occupation. First, the meaning of glass ceiling is an unacknowledged discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power or responsibility, as within a corporation. That basically means that women can only go so far in certain line of work. This has been going on since the late eighties. As said in an article written by Roy D. Alder, “You can believe most of the history up to about 1987. At about that time, the concept of the "glass ceiling" was created, the term came into wide usage, and the glass ceiling took off as a political issue.
Approximate Word count = 668
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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