 Invisible MinorityTojo Thatchenkery and Keimei Sugiyama Chapter Chapter 7 in Making the Invisible Visible, 2011, pp 101-122 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract First coined in 1986 in the Wall Street Journal, the metaphor of the glass ceiling is a widely accepted term used to describe the unseen barriers that systemically keep certain groups of individuals from upward mobility within organizations. The concept of the glass ceiling belongs not only to the United States where the term was first coined in reference to women in the corporate world, but it is used globally as a core concept to describe the challenges of upward mobility in a workforce. The metaphor of the glass ceiling has resonance because it provides those who experience the glass ceiling with an image to provide to those who do not. It illustrates the invisibility of the challenges that certain groups of individuals face in trying to reach the top of an organization. What the glass ceiling does not do is account for the differences in how these limitations are experienced among varying ethnic groups. The glass ceiling focuses our attention upward, yet if everyone is looking up when do we look around to acknowledge what others are experiencing? Keywords: Hispanic Woman; Upward Mobility; Visible Minority; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Glass Ceiling (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-33934-7_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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