SOCY 3391 Lecture : Social_3.docx
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1: the glass ceiling and the glass escalator/elevator, the glass ceiling effect is the invisible institutional barrier based on attitudinal or organization bias, that prevents qualified and deserving people from advancing upward to top management level positions in their organization, these barriers exist because of prejudice on the basis of sex, age, political or religious affiliation, weight based appearance norms, or potentially devalued attributes or characteristics, this exists in many occupations and professions, for example, the glass ceiling prevents female surgeons from attaining full professorships at medical schools throughout the united states, the upward movement of men in women"s professions is called the.
