The Glass Ceiling: Does It Still Exist?

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This is a position paper arguing that there has been no real progress made regarding the 'glass ceiling' in corporate America. The paper argues that women and people of color are still discriminated against in terms of equal opportunity and equal pay and that anachronistic notions of women's capabilities and characteristics place them at a disadvantage when it comes to workplace evaluations and promotions.

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"In 1964 the federal government of the United States passed a Civil Rights Act that forbade discrimination - that is using double standards - in the workplace. The idea was for all job applicants and all candidates for promotion within companies to be treated equally. The concept was excellent the implementation has left much to be desired. The question of whether or not the "glass ceiling" that invisible but definite barrier to the upper echelons of corporate America still exists for women and, people of color, is almost childish. The number of studies that have been done in the intervening forty years, that clearly show the continued existence of barriers to not only equal opportunity, but to equal pay for equal work, runs into the thousands. It is often said that there are none so blind as those who will not see, and this is very obvious in the general response to women in the "corner office.""

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