glass ceiling

glass ceiling

美 　英

• n.无形顶障（虽无明文规定却实际存在的对妇女等在职务升迁上的无形限制）
• 网络玻璃天花板；玻璃屋顶；玻璃天花板效应

词形变化

复数：glass ceilings  

英汉双解

英汉解释

na.

1. 玻璃天花板

英英解释

n.	1. an unfair system that prevents some people, especially women, from reaching the most senior positions in a company or organization

例句

Kurt: The problem with that job was that there was a glass ceiling. They would never promote a person like me.

那个工作的问题就是公司有一个禁忌。他们从不会提升像我这样的人。

In her current roles she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company . . .

在现在的职位上，她突破了升迁的障碍，成为该公司第一个升至高级管理层的女性……

Hillary Clinton hoped to break through the glass ceiling by winning the ultimate contest, the presidency of the United States.

希拉里·克林顿曾希望通过最终赢得美国总统选举而打破玻璃天花板。

In many career fields a woman can't get through the glass ceiling to be promoted to the upper management.

在很多职业领域，女职员都会受到隐形的性别歧视障碍而不能升迁到管理高层。

A wide-open space, bright and clean, a hall larger by far than the Great Hall, with that clear, domed glass ceiling. It was quite empty.

一大片辽阔的空间，明亮、干净，一个比大礼堂大得多的大厅，上面是那个明净的玻璃圆顶。

Women who do break through the glass ceiling are more likely to help out their male subordinates than female ones.

事实上，那些打破了无形职场障碍的女老闆们更愿意出手帮自己的男下属而非女下属。

The four levels of rooms center on a beautiful courtyard with a glass ceiling to let light shine in.

共四层的房间以一个美丽的有玻璃天花板的庭院为中心，阳光从那里射进。

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

虽然这一次，我们无法打破那最高、最坚硬的玻璃天花板，但是由于你们，它出现了1800万道裂缝……

Titan II duty was considered to be a combat position and missile crews were an early breach through the military's glass ceiling.

泰坦II导弹的控制岗被认为是一个战斗岗位，控制人员就是军队的直属分支。

But now that the glass ceiling has been broken in the high-tech industry, the sky may be the limit for female executives.

但是在高技术产业里，既然阻挠女性晋升的“职场限制”已经被打破，那些女性主管可以说是前途无量。

Many women find that a glass ceiling exists when they try to move up in a company.

许多女性感到当她们努力想在公司里升职时，总存在有一些无形的障碍。

This could just be another book about women, the glass ceiling and the usual laments about why women don't make it to the top.

这本书也可以是另一番模样——写女人、写玻璃天花板、对女人为何不能升任最高职位发出司空见惯的悲叹。

Forget smashing a hole through the glass ceiling and throwing a rope ladder down to her younger female colleagues.

透过玻璃天花板砸个洞，然后向年轻的女同事扔个绳梯。这事还是忘了吧。

He claims the 'glass ceiling' phenomenon is probably due to inferior intelligence, rather than discrimination or lack of opportunity .

他说，造成这种“玻璃天花板”现象的原因可能是由于女性的智商不及男性，并不是性别歧视或缺少机会。

"There is still a glass ceiling, " Lu said, but Obama is trying to change that.

卢沛宁表示，“玻璃天花板依然存在”，但奥巴马力图改变这种状况。

Whether you are raising daughters or feel like you are crashing into a glass ceiling, you will find her words empowering.

如果你在抚育子女上遇到了问题或者工作中遭遇玻璃天花板，她的话总会能你支持力量。

Why not break through a whole bunch of electrical lights, smash through a glass ceiling, and then hit the floor?

为什么不穿过一整串电灯泡，打碎玻璃天花板，然后撞到地板上呢？

Since women comprise half of the managers and other professionals in the American workforce, the glass ceiling still seems formidably thick.

美国劳动力中女性在经理和其他职位上占到50%的份额，由此可见，这层“玻璃天花板”仍然厚得可怕。

There is a glass ceiling in France for citizens of Arab and African origin, and that ceiling needs to be shattered.

对于阿拉伯和非洲后裔来说，他们要打破这个社会长期存在的无形限制。

But others see her as a pioneer trendsetter, crashing the glass ceiling long before Hillary Clinton cracked it.

但也有人把芭比当做潮流先锋，在希拉里·克林顿打破女性玻璃天花板之前就将其打得粉碎。

I feel Ihave reached the "glass ceiling" in my current job. I feel there is no opportunity for advancement.

我觉患上目前的工作，已经达到颠峰，即没有调职机会。

After ten years of working for a prestigious Wall Street bank and slamming into a glass ceiling, I vehemently said "Enough! "

在享有声望的华尔街银行辛勤工作了十年之后，我达到了公司的高层，我对自己说：这足够了。

Susan didn't know there was a glass ceiling at her workplace until she hit it.

苏珊不知道职场上有一道玻璃天花板，直到碰上了她才明白。

Carol Bartz's move to the corner office at Yahoo! marks another break in the glass ceiling for executive women.

巴兹加盟雅虎，标志这个女强人职业生涯的又一次突破。

Then this thesis puts forward several individual and organizational strategies to crack the "glass ceiling" .

在此基础上，本研究进一步提出了冲破“玻璃天花板”的个人策略和组织策略。

Foreign researchers have defined this phenomenon as a "glass ceiling" .

国外研究者将这一现象定义为“玻璃天花板”。

Not all the women who broke the political glass ceiling had an easy start.

但不是所有打破政治“玻璃天花板”的女议员们都有一个顺利的开始。

Breaking the glass ceiling, the regulation makes it easier for women to move into senior management.

这项规定打破了晋级限制，使女性员工晋升高级管理职位不再困难重重。

He found that "companies that smash the glass ceiling also enjoy higher profits. "

他发现“打破性别歧视传统的公司也会赚得更多的收益。”

Or they are confronted with a glass ceiling that keeps them from the most senior positions.

或者，她们面临玻璃天花板，无法升入最高职位。

At work, I do not believe in the glass ceiling for women, and do not see myself as weaker than men.

在工作中，我不相信女人的玻璃天花板，而且不如弱于男人见到我自己。

The very small number of women in the "C-suite" does take some explaining, and the glass ceiling doesn't do it.

处于“最高级别高管位置（C-suite）”的极少数女性确实会做一些解释，而玻璃天花板不会。

"If you don't believe there is a glass ceiling, there is no need, " she told me.

“如果你不相信玻璃顶棚的存在，那么就没有必要了。”她告诉我。

A: I feel I have reached the "glass ceiling" in my current job. I feel there is no opportunity for advancement.

我觉得目前的工作，已经达到顶峰，即没有升迁机会。

Is there really a glass ceiling holding back the careers of talented female scientists?

确实存在阻碍有才能的女科学家升迁的无形障碍吗？

Do you think the glass ceiling phenomena is because of traditional social customs? Or are there more issues coming into play?

你认为这种比例天花板现象是由于传统的社会习俗所致吗？或者说还有其他的因素在起作用？。

Life above the glass ceiling is 100-hour weeks, working for someone else, and no time for friends and family.

在玻璃天花板上的生活是为别人一周工作100个小时，没有时间和家人朋友呆在一起。

The glass ceiling is a limit that you can't see and can't get past.

这是一种你无法看到且无法逾越的限制。

Many women in the 90s are protesting the glass ceiling that bars them form upper management in large corporation.

90年代，许多妇女抗议阻止她们大公司高级管理阶层的性别障碍。

China' s economic development has hit a glass ceiling recently.

中国的经济发展，近来也碰到了无形的阻碍。