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Definition

A metaphorical boundary that is hard to cross. 

Context : Business
Category: Idiom, Metaphor
Semantic: boundary, limit

The glass ceiling is an invisible limiting factor in socio-economic life.

Usage of “glass ceiling”

  1. Is there still a glass ceiling? How many women CEOs are there?

  2. Women are still hitting the glass ceiling at the work place.

  3. The glass ceiling is cracked but it ain't broken.

Examples of idiom “glass ceiling” from Twitter
  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'Gangz87'
    Gangz87:

    Struggling to break through the glass ceiling....

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'Bogota_'
    Bogota_:

    Women break through glass ceiling -- of drug-dealing underworld

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'rayane_sa'
    rayane_sa:

    Who does not have glass ceiling that cast the first stone.

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'BrklynVigor'
    BrklynVigor:

    How do we break the glass ceiling if we're still constructing it?

  • Default avatar for Twitter user 'warlen7'
    warlen7:

    There are no glass ceilings on happiness.