‘Glass Cliff,’ Not Just Ceiling, Often Impedes Women Rising in Politics - The New York Times
Katrin Bennhold
The rise of women in British politics is certainly striking — the Green Party is also led by a woman (who shares the job with a man) as is the Welsh nationalist party — but does it amount to progress? Amid the turmoil following the vote to leave the European Union, there is a sense in some quarters that rather than shattering a glass ceiling, female leaders risk tumbling down a “glass cliff” — a theory that holds that women are often placed in positions of power when the situation is dire, men are uninterested and the likelihood of success is low.
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