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Bruckmüller, S., Ryan, M. K., Haslam, S. A., & Peters, K. (2013). Ceilings, cliffs, and labyrinths: Exploring metaphors for workplace gender discrimination. The Sage handbook of gender and psychology, 450-465.
Bruckmüller, Susanne, et al. "Ceilings, cliffs, and labyrinths: Exploring metaphors for workplace gender discrimination." The Sage handbook of gender and psychology (2013): 450-465.
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Ceilings, cliffs, and labyrinths: Exploring metaphors for workplace gender discrimination.

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It has been more than 25 years since the 'glass ceiling'metaphor was popularized by the Wall Street Journal (Hymowitz & Schellhardt, 1986) to describe women's inability to reach the upper echelons of leadership. Now metaphors abound to describe the challenges that women and other underrepresented groups face in business and in politics. We have all manner of structural barriers that can contribute to gender inequality–from 'sticky floors'(Booth, Francesconi, & Frank, 2003) to 'maternal walls'(J. Williams, 2001), from 'leaky …

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