Dismantling the glass ceiling. (Federal government steps to end barriers keeping women and minorities from top management positions) (Women at Work)

In a keynote speech before New York City's labor/management I community, Rosalie Gaull Silberman, vice chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, defined the term "glass ceiling" as an invisible, inpenetrable barrier to advancement for women and minorities." Moreover, in their book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Ann Morrison and her colleagues found, in their opinion, a perfect metaphor to capture this predicament: Women and minorities are climbing the corporate ladder, but at some point seem to reach an invisible barrier, a glass ceiling separating them from the top management positions.

Where the lack of advancement of opportunities are the result of intentional discrimination on the part of corporations, those affected women and minorities have claims against their employer. The difficulty …