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Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison by The Class Ceiling Why it Pays to be Privileged (2019, Policy Press)

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Second, we also want to reflect on our adoption in this book of the feminist concept of the glass ceiling, albeit recast in terms of a ‘class ceiling’. We should make it clear, here, that we are in no way asserting that the class ceiling has somehow replaced the glass ceiling, or implicitly suggesting, like many in the past, that class is some sort of ‘master-category’.21 Put simply, classorigin differences in the labour market do not operate in all the same ways as gender and ethnicity, and therefore retaining the specificity of the glass ceiling concept is clearly critical. Yet at the same time we believe that mobility analysis has much to learn from this literature.22 This is very clear from the results of this book.

As Annette Kuhn, a British film critic, famously argued, ‘class is something beneath your clothes, under your skin, in your reflexes, your psyche, at the very core of your being’.70 Lessons from the glass ceiling A wealth of research suggests, then, that class origin casts a long shadow over people’s lives. Yet this work stops short of interrogating precisely how it matters in the arena we focus on in this book: careers in elite occupations. Still, drawing on two rich and allied research traditions can provide important clues. The first is based on the experiences of members of racialethnic minority groups and white women in the elite labour market. Here the metaphor of glass, and particularly the glass ceiling, has been usefully deployed to highlight the invisible yet durable barriers that these groups face in achieving the same rewards as white men in the same positions.71 A range of mechanisms is at play here, from direct discrimination (in terms of sexism and racism) to the subtler and more insidious effects of stereotyping, microagressions, tokenism and homophily (the tendency among decision-makers to favour those who are, in various ways, like themselves).72 This work has also highlighted how these groups tend to be shut out of what is colloquially called the ‘old boys’ network’, the informal social connections that help people find out about job opportunities and navigate promotions.73 17 The Class Ceiling The key point that emerges from this glass-ceiling literature is that what we conventionally understand as ‘merit’ is not the only, or maybe even the main, determinant of career success.

Study upon study has shown that even when women and racial-ethnic minorities are just as capable, talented and hard-working as white men in every way these attributes can be measured, they are still less likely to get on. This has obvious implications for our study. We know that those from working-class backgrounds have also been historically excluded from elite occupations74 (albeit for different reasons), so to what extent might the mechanisms driving the glass ceiling also apply to class origin? But connecting insights about the glass ceiling to the topic of class is not just about drawing parallels. After all, class, gender, race (and many other aspects of social division) do not operate as separate and mutually exclusive axes of inequality. Instead, they almost always build on each other and work together.


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The Meritocracy Myth by Stephen J. McNamee

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Among the 2011 Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans, only 10 percent were women, and 90 percent of them inherited their wealth (United for a Fair Economy 2012). The Glass Ceiling The phrase glass ceiling, another form of employment discrimination, refers to discriminatory policies that limit the upward mobility of qualified women and minorities, keeping them out of top management positions. As previously noted, many of the jobs in which women are concentrated have short mobility ladders. Secretaries rarely become bosses. Even though many secretaries could do the work of their bosses—and, indeed, they often do—they do not get the credit, the salary, or the opportunity to move up, regardless of their level of competence. The glass ceiling operates so that although all applicants may be welcomed by a firm at entry levels, when it comes to powerful managerial and executive positions, there are limits, generally unstated, on the number of women and nonwhites welcomed or even tolerated.

This problem is compounded by the departure of middle-class families from black inner-city areas, which has depleted the social capital of the remaining population and contributed to high levels of unemployment and welfare dependency (Wacquant and Wilson 1989; Wilson 1987, 1996). Women, likewise, have also historically confronted restricted access to privileged social networks, sometimes derisively referred to as “the good old boy network” that has contributed to a “glass ceiling” of limited (nonmerit) opportunities for advancement (McDonald, Lin, and Ao 2009). The process of this restriction is often subtle and can come in many forms. Women in business settings, for instance, may be restricted from inner male sanctums such as the golf course, the racquetball court, the bar, the poker game, or other arenas of mostly male interaction in which insider information is shared and business deals are often cut outside of “official” work environments.

Second, some women may select self-employment because it affords them greater scheduling flexibility in combining the demands of work and family. Among self-employed workers, for instance, half of women are employed part-time compared to only a third of men (Hipple 2010, 28). Finally, some women may start new businesses to circumvent the glass-ceiling effects often encountered in wage employment. Although self-employment is often seen as a vehicle of upward social mobility for ethnic minorities, whites have higher rates of self-employment than these groups. In 2009 for instance, whites were about twice as likely to be self-employed as blacks, with white self-employment at 7.4 percent compared to 4.5 percent for blacks (Hipple 2010, 21).


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Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America by Garrett Neiman

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Karin Muraszko, a University of Michigan scholar, became the first woman to head a neurosurgery department in 2005; she’s still the only one.26 When researchers studied neurosurgery residency enrollment patterns in the 2010’s, they found that there was no statistically significant change in the percentage of women matriculants; those findings held up for Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx matriculants, too.27 To track where the wealth and power lies—and how it is shifting, if at all—just follow the white male elites. In an earlier era, the glass ceiling prevented women and people of color from breaking through to leadership positions. Today the glass ceiling is made out of tokens, which rich white men produce in the exception factory. It’s not the first time that rich white men have used marginalized people as human shields, and unless things change, it probably won’t be the last. CHAPTER 7 THE PEOPLE OF COLOR RANKING SYSTEM The mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.

“Discovering the Glass Cliff: Insights into Addressing Subtle Gender Discrimination in the Workplace,” Context, Identity and Choice: Understanding the Constraints on Women’s Career Decisions, University of Exeter, accessed September 13, 2022, https://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/about/theglasscliff/. 19. Emily Stewart, “Why Struggling Companies Promote Women: The Glass Cliff, Explained,” Vox, October 31, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/17960156/what-is-the-glass-cliff-women-ceos. 20. Larry Kim, “After Shattering Glass Ceiling, Women CEOs Fall Off the Glass Cliff,” Inc., October 28, 2014, https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/after-shattering-glass-ceiling-female-ceos-fall-off-the-glass-cliff.html. 21. Ada Stewart, “Women Close Med School Enrollment Gap; Others Remain,” Leader Voices Blog, AAFP, accessed September 13, 2022, https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20200228lv-diversity.html. 22.

., “A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law,” The Practice, Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, November/December 2018, https://thepractice.law.harvard.edu/article/a-portrait-of-asian-americans-in-the-law/. 12. Jeffrey Mervis, “A Glass Ceiling for Asian Scientists?” Science, October 28, 2005, https://www.science.org/content/article/glass-ceiling-asian-scientists. 13. Melinda Shepherd, “Sundar Pichai,” Britannica.com, June 6, 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sundar-Pichai. 14. Grace Dean, “Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Now Worth More Than $100 Billion, Making Them 2 of Only 8 Centibillionaires in the World,” Business Insider, April 12, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/google-larry-page-sergey-brin-net-worth-billionaire-wealth-bloomberg-2021-4. 15.


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Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

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But my mother also knew that it was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration. She always regretted not going to university (and was selflessly pleased that I was able to do just that). She was often frustrated that her views and her voice were not taken as seriously as she hoped they would be. And, though she would have been puzzled at the metaphor of the ‘glass ceiling’, she was well aware that the further up the career hierarchy she went, the fewer female faces she saw. She was often in my mind when I was preparing the two lectures on which this book is based, delivered, courtesy of the London Review of Books, in 2014 and 2017. I wanted to work out how I would explain to her – as much as to myself, as well as to the millions of other women who still share some of the same frustrations – just how deeply embedded in Western culture are the mechanisms that silence women, that refuse to take them seriously, and that sever them (sometimes quite literally, as we shall see) from the centres of power.

(I still remember a Cambridge where, in most colleges, the women’s loos were tucked away across two courts, through the passage and down the stairs in the basement: is there a message here, I wondered.) But, in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power – ‘knocking on the door’, ‘storming the citadel’, ‘smashing the glass ceiling’, or just giving them a ‘leg up’ – underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled. A headline in The Times in early 2017 captured this wonderfully. Above an article reporting on the possibility that women might soon gain the positions of Metropolitan Police commissioner, chair of the BBC Unitary Board and bishop of London, it read: ‘Women Prepare for a Power Grab in church, Police and BBC.’

So far, in reflecting on power, I have followed the usual path in discussions of this kind, by focussing on national and international politics and politicians – to which we might add, for good measure, some of the standard line-up of CEOs, prominent journalists, television executives and so on. This offers a very narrow version of what power is, largely correlating it with public prestige (or in some cases public notoriety). It is very ‘high end’ in a very traditional sense, and bound up with the ‘glass ceiling’ image of power, which not only effectively positions women on the outside of power, but also imagines the female pioneer as the already successful superwoman with just a few last vestiges of male prejudice keeping her from the top. I don’t think this model speaks to most women, who, even if they are not aiming to be president of the United States or a company boss, still rightly feel that they want a stake in power.


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The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World by Shaun Rein

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Japanese companies were ruthless with the foreign companies they bought out. They quickly replaced senior management teams and instituted glass ceilings for top positions. Even today, few Japanese companies in the United States have non-Japanese senior executives. Often the gaijin they do have are mere tokens, who do not have much power internally. Soon after the explosion of the dot-com bubble, Ron, a 48-year-old Harvard Business School graduate who worked for a big Japanese bank in New York, told me, “The worst thing a high-achieving American can do is work at a Japanese firm. They put glass ceilings everywhere and you get treated like you’re inferior. Once the economy gets better, I’m out of here.”

CASE STUDIES WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO IN CHINA Do Not Fear the Chinese as the Japanese Were Feared Cash-rich Chinese companies, like state-owned Bright Food or privately owned Fosun Group, have been on buying sprees scooping up Western brands. This trend has spurred concerns in the Western world that Chinese firms will acquire companies and then fire scores of workers or implement glass ceilings, much as Japanese companies did in the 1980s with non-Japanese executives. These worries are exaggerated, because Chinese and Japanese firms view the acquisition process differently. Chinese firms tend to acquire companies to buy brands for introduction into China, to cut the time needed for building brands, and to import technological know-how and management expertise.

Key Action Item Selling to a Chinese firm might be a good way to improve company valuation yet retain key leadership positions. It will also help companies gain better distribution channels into China, which are costly and hard to build for Western firms. Before selling to a Chinese company, instead of preparing for glass ceilings or massive layoffs, you should anticipate a culture clash owing to the more hands-on management style of Chinese firms’ founders and chairmen. Chinese Go Abroad to Shop Many brands set up huge stores in China that remain devoid of shoppers, yet still report huge sales to mainland-Chinese consumers.


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Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri

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The long hours or emotionally empty work can drain energy from projects, paid and unpaid, that they enjoy. Workers can make ghost work a navigable path out of challenging circumstances, meeting a basic need for autonomy and independence that is necessary for pursuing other interests, bigger than money.32 GLASS CEILINGS On-demand jobs offer those in the U.S. and India who face workplace discrimination—particularly historically marginalized communities, women, and people with disabilities—digital literacy, a sense of identity, respect among family, and financial independence. Women who dropped out of the workforce to care for young children face barriers when they try to return.

She happily moved her family to Berkeley, California, to work as a full-time employee in the company’s main offices. She describes LeadGenius as an incredible and inclusive workplace. Despite being a world apart, Danelle and Kumuda both show how on-demand labor can have a transformative effect not only on workers themselves but also on their families. But it’s not just women like Kumuda who face glass ceilings. People who had faced discrimination in the workplace because of disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity reported that on-demand work was a way to avoid harassment from co-workers with more seniority or power over them. Lakshya, 34, was in an auto rickshaw accident years ago that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

See college education demographics, on-demand employment Amara, 29 LeadGenius, 23–24, 224 n27 MTurk, 3–4, 10, 11, 126 UHRS, 18, 19 Upwork, 169 Department of Labor, 11, 168 design flaws, 91–93 Diane, 78–79 Dietterich, Tom, xx–xxi, 220 n15 Digital Divide, 162 disability captioning for, xxix, 28, 152–55, 225 n29 on-demand work perceived as, xxx employment, 113–17, 175 insurance for, 60 laws pertaining to, 237 n35 discrimination APIs, 172 collaboration, 135–37 digital access, 161–62 glass ceilings, 113–17 marital status, 53–54 skin color, 226 n3 slavery, 40–41, 226 n2 See also women disenfranchisement, 86 Disney, scheduling, 100 “dollars for dicks,” x DoorDash, 157–58, 162, 189 double bottom line, 140–65 Amara and, 153–55 defined, 141 by design, 148–52, 240 n9 Good Work Code, 156–58 overview of, 140–43 peer-to-peer sharing company, 155–56 platform cooperatives, 158–59 shortcomings of, 159–63 vs single bottom line, 144–47 social entrepreneurship and, 147 tragedy of the commons, 164–65 driver-partners (Uber), 145–46, 240 n5 Dynamo, 136–37 E Economic Policy Institute, xxv education college, xxix, 50, 97, 98, 101, 190 recommendations for, 190 requirement of, 10, 161–62 skill development, 110–13 for women, 114 See also training empathy, 184–85 employees.


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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

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I graduated from college in 1991 and from business school in 1995. In each entry-level job after graduation, my colleagues were a balanced mix of male and female. I saw that the senior leaders were almost entirely male, but I thought that was due to historical discrimination against women. The proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked in almost every industry, and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles. But with each passing year, fewer and fewer of my colleagues were women. More and more often, I was the only woman in the room. Being the sole woman has resulted in some awkward yet revealing situations.

The most frequently cited reason for reducing aspiration was the same for both men and women—67 percent said a very important reason was “the sacrifices I would have to make in my personal or family life.” It’s also important to note that women who think little progress has been made in breaking through the glass ceiling are more likely to have reduced their aspirations than women who think progress has occurred. See Families and Work Institute, Catalyst, Center for Work & Family at Boston College, Leaders in a Global Economy: A Study of Executive Women and Men (January 2003), 4, http://​www.​catalyst.​org/​publication/​80/​leaders-​in-​a-​global-​economy-​a-​study-​of-​executive-​women-​and-​men.

For a discussion of the differences between mentoring and sponsoring, see Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter, and Christine Silva, “Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women,” Harvard Business Review 88, no. 9 (2010): 80–85; and Sylvia Ann Hewlett et al., The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling, a Harvard Business Review Research Report (December 2010): 5–7. 2. Studies have found that people who are mentored and sponsored report having more career success (such as higher compensation, a greater number of promotions, greater career and job satisfaction, and more career commitment). See Tammy D.


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Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes by Mark Penn, E. Kinney Zalesne

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More generally, even those religions that admit women clergy seem to resist their playing too large a role. There is a widely observed phenomenon among women clergy—known as the Stained Glass Ceiling—that while they finish their training in numbers equal to or greater than men, they rise in congregational work far more slowly. To this day, a very large congregation—in any religion—led solely by a woman is almost unknown. Some say it’s just a matter of time until women clergy break through the Stained Glass Ceiling. They have made solid progress in other professions—especially word-oriented ones—and this field might just be taking longer, in part because the First Amendment bars recourse to anti-discrimination laws.

First eBook Edition: September 2007 ISBN: 978-0-446-40206-4 Contents Copyright Introduction PART I: Love, Sex, and Relationships Sex-Ratio Singles Cougars Office Romancers Commuter Couples Internet Marrieds PART II: Work Life Working Retired Extreme Commuters Stay-at-Home Workers Wordy Women Ardent Amazons PART III: Race and Religion Stained Glass Ceiling Breakers Pro-Semites Interracial Families Protestant Hispanics Moderate Muslims PART IV: Health and Wellness Sun-Haters 30-Winkers Southpaws Unbound DIY Doctors Hard-of-Hearers PART V: Family Life Old New Dads Pet Parents Pampering Parents Late-Breaking Gays Dutiful Sons PART VI: Politics Impressionable Elites Swing Is Still King Militant Illegals Christian Zionists Newly Released Ex-Cons PART VII: Teens The Mildly Disordered Young Knitters Black Teen Idols High School Moguls Aspiring Snipers PART VIII: Food, Drink, and Diet Vegan Children A Disproportionate Burden Starving for Life Caffeine Crazies PART IX: Lifestyle Long Attention Spanners Neglected Dads Native Language Speakers Unisexuals PART X: Money and Class Second-Home Buyers Modern Mary Poppinses Shy Millionaires Bourgeois and Bankrupt Non-Profiteers PART XI: Looks and Fashion Uptown Tattooed Snowed-Under Slobs Surgery Lovers Powerful Petites PART XII: Technology Social Geeks New Luddites Tech Fatales Car-Buying Soccer Moms PART XIII: Leisure and Entertainment Archery Moms?

Twenty-five years ago, we had a national debate on the Equal Rights Amendment, and one of the big arguments against it was that women might have to serve in the armed forces or be police officers. Today’s Ardent Amazons are proving what a silly debate that was. PART III Race and Religion Stained Glass Ceiling Breakers A final trend about women at work. Women may be poised to dominate America’s word-based professions, like journalism, public relations, and law, but women’s preeminence gets more complicated when it comes to professions regarding The Word. In the last two decades, the number of female clergy in America has more than tripled.


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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart

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They are people on the brink who did everything “right,” and yet the math of their family lives is simply not adding up. Some are just getting by. For others, something happened and they tumbled down and never got back up. For mothers in particular, this situation can be something I call the “class ceiling,” the intersection of the “glass ceiling” that stymies workingwomen’s careers and the result of the myriad injuries of social class. This book hopefully illuminates the lives of the struggling middle class and offers strategies that may help. As these families struggle to preserve, or even simply to attain, a middle-class life, they do so in spite of, not because of, today’s America.

As a lawyer, Nanau herself had seen that “employers know how to build paper trails” around female workers who complained; she had seen how they used these paper trails to defeat women’s cases. This is part of what the legal philosopher Joan Williams calls the “maternal wall,” a spatial metaphor that, when attached to the proverbial “glass ceiling,” virtually imprisons female workers. The pregnant worker, in other words, is subject to several different biases that stem, at least partly, from the disregard for our private lives shown by our workplaces and, at times, our employers. The result: working mothers are regularly asked to cleave themselves, separating the leaky processes of birth and early child-rearing from their careers.

Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (New York: Touchstone, 1986). legal scholars Deborah L. Brake and Joanna L. Grossman: Deborah L. Brake and Joanna L. Grossman, “Unprotected Sex: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 35,” Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 21 (2013): 67. Joan Williams calls the “maternal wall”: Joan C. Williams, “The Glass Ceiling and the Maternal Wall in Academia,” New Directions for Higher Education 130 (2005): 91. CHAPTER 2 Coverage for a child: “Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Levels,” Medicaid, April 2016, https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medicaid-and-chip-eligibility-levels/index.html. rose from 9,776 to 33,655: These numbers were calculated by a senior researcher with the Urban Institute.


Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs by Eric Peterson

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., Denver (& 800/321-2599 or 303/297-3111), has an air of sophistication, refinement, and class. The Brown has operated continuously since August 1892. See p. 59. A handsome downtown establishment, the Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder (& 800/433-4344 or 303/442-4344), has been skillfully renovated and restored. It retains its original Otis elevator, lovely leaded-glass ceiling, and spectacular cherrywood staircase, which caused quite a stir when the hotel opened in 1909. See p. 130. Designed by New York City architects in the Italian Renaissance style, The Broadmoor, Lake Circle, at Lake Avenue, Colorado Springs (& 800/6347711 or 719/634-7711), opened in 1918. Colorado’s most elegant and best-preserved hotel of the era, it’s filled with objets d’art from around the world, including Oriental art from the Ming and Tsin dynasties and a huge carved wooden bar from an 1800s British pub.

See p. 182. • Best Hotel Lobbies for Pretending You’re Rich: The lobby of the Brown Palace Hotel (Denver; see address and telephone above) features walls of Mexican onyx and a floor of white marble. The elaborate cast-iron grillwork surrounding the six tiers of balconies draws your eye to the stained-glass ceiling. Luncheon and afternoon tea are served in the lobby nearly every day. When it opened in 1918, the first guests at The Broadmoor (Colorado Springs; see address and telephone above) were millionaire John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his party. When surrounded by priceless 17th-century art, it’s easy to imagine yourself mingling with the wealthy, reading the financial 12/19/08 11:39:35 PM 7 1 BEST HOTEL BETS 05_382288-ch01.indd 7 telephone above): It offers 24-hour room service, a concierge, in-room massage, valet laundry, a shuttle bus between buildings, and a multitude of recreational activities, as well as almost anything else you might ask for. • Best Bed-and-Breakfast: A great location, striking art, and modern convenience make The Bradley, 2020 16th St., Boulder (& 800/858-5811 or 303/545-5200), one of my very favorite B&Bs on the Front Range.

A National Historic Landmark, the Brown Palace has operated continuously since it opened in 1892. Designed with an odd triangular shape by the renowned architect Frank Edbrooke, it was built of Colorado red granite and Arizona sandstone. The lobby’s walls are paneled with Mexican onyx, and elaborate cast-iron grillwork surrounds six tiers of balconies up to the stained-glass ceiling. Every president since 1905 (except Calvin Coolidge) has visited the hotel, and Dwight Eisenhower made the Brown his home away from the White House. His former room, now known as the Eisenhower Suite, is a vision of stately elegance, with a preserved dent in the fireplace trim that is the alleged result of an errant golf swing.


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Celebration of Fools: An Inside Look at the Rise and Fall of JCPenney by Bill Hare

business climate, fake news, glass ceiling, haute couture, haute cuisine, McMansion, pneumatic tube, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, vertical integration, walking around money, warehouse automation, women in the workforce

She (in this case) also had a vested interest in having the words come spilling out of the boss's mouth. And, as the reader will continue to see, she certainly had the political acumen to bring off this event. Gale Duff-Bloom, in fact, will become one of the principal figures in this book. She was a woman who seemed to break through the glass ceiling and for a while become one of the best modern Penney executives. As usually happens between concept and delivery of such a speech, Duff-Bloom became somewhat distanced from the project after the completion of the writing process while a cadre of mostly anonymous staffers took over the coordination, PR, graphics development, and audiovisual aspects.

Along the way, she was expected to behave ethically and expect the same from her peers and superiors. The conduct of business by all parties to it would be according to the Golden Rule, which, all associates knew, had actually been the name of James Cash Penney's first stores. Yes, there was a double standard in this life. A glass ceiling was firmly in place. But there were several people, including some bright and brave women, determined to change that. Also, despite the best of intentions, the ills affecting corporate America in general were also visited upon the J. C. Penney Company, where, as at all other companies, human beings with weaknesses were running things.

Among the considerations were measurable results, accountability, and senior-level leadership. Howell, therefore, was priority number one. His backing of the Catalyst pursuit would prevent executive obfuscation of measurable results. Same for accountability. No matter who you were, you'd be in trouble if women were reeling from glass ceiling concussions in your area. Most important of all was the fact that W. R. alone was JCPenney's senior-level leadership. This totally negated the fact that most of the boys hated the very idea of the Catalyst campaign, let alone the possibility of actually winning the damned award. With Howell's approval, the others could jump up and down like Rumpelstiltskin until the floor buckled and it couldn't matter less.


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Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs by Jamie Fiore Higgins

Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, glass ceiling, messenger bag, money market fund, short selling, zero-sum game

It was hard to follow, as I had no idea what it was being ranked on, but I did understand that Goldman was number one in everything. “Join me, join us,” she said in a hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret. “We want sharp, smart women from Bryn Mawr. We want women with grit and a never-give-up attitude. We want to bring in a new crop of hardworking and powerful women. We want to blast through the glass ceiling! We want you.” Afterward, I couldn’t get Genevieve out of my mind. Yes, she was dazzling, but there was something more. She held court in that room, a tough and strong leader. When I spoke to her one-on-one afterward, I saw she was also friendly and welcoming. I didn’t think there was a world where a woman could be all those things.

Of all the competition at Goldman, the harshest was often amongst the women. You’d think that we’d all band together, pledge solidarity, and be a force to be reckoned with. In this room, we were the majority—which never happened at Goldman—and we should’ve been setting the tone. Conspiring to blast through that glass ceiling the way Genevieve said we could in what I’d come to think of as her “Battle Cry at Bryn Mawr.” But despite the Women’s Network mantra of “Bringing up another woman with you,” that rarely happened. The company culture seemed to foster a scarcity mindset, as if women knew there were few spots for them, that they were a token to fill some quota in the boys’ club.

I’m not surprised that once you got there you felt like you were sold a false bill of goods. Do what you would do in any other similar transaction: Point out the discrepancy and demand they fix it. What you were promised when you interviewed should be what you experience once you’ve been hired, period. Here’s what not to do: Don’t break through their Glass Ceiling. You don’t want to join the ranks of the Boys Club and morph into who they are. You don’t want a space with walls penning you in. You want a big sky of possibilities. Don’t settle for anything less. To my readers—these situations don’t just happen in Fortune 500 companies, but across all work organizations: large and small, public, private, or nonprofit.


Lonely Planet Pocket Barcelona by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham

Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, young professional

The soaring interior of Església de Santa Maria del Mar KRZYSZTOF DYDYNSKI/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Don’t Miss Main Sanctuary The pleasing unity of form and symmetry of the church’s central nave and two flanking aisles owes much to the rapidity with which it was built in the 14th century – a mere 59 years, which must be a record for a major European house of worship. The slender, octagonal pillars create an enormous sense of lateral space bathed in the light of stained glass. Ceiling & Side Chapels Even before anarchists gutted the church in 1909 and again in 1936, Santa Maria always lacked superfluous decoration. Gone are the gilded chapels that weigh heavily over many Spanish churches, while the splashes of colour high above the nave are subtle – unusually and beautifully so.

The exterior and foyer are opulent, but these are nothing compared with the interior of the main auditorium. Fifty-minute tours run every half-hour. (www.palaumusica.org; Carrer del Palau de la Música 4-6; tours adult/child/concession €12/free/10; 10am-6pm Aug, 10am-3.30pm Sep-Jul; Urquinaona) Glass ceiling of the Palau de la Música Catalana CARLOS RIOS/ALAMY © 2 Mercat de Santa Caterina Market Offline map Google map Though it lacks the clamour of the Mercat de la Boqueria, this 21st-century produce market with its undulating, polychrome-tiled roof is an atmospheric place to stop for lunch or shop for fresh produce and gourmet products.


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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America by Charlotte Alter

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, "World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean water, collective bargaining, Columbine, corporate personhood, correlation does not imply causation, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, data science, David Brooks, deepfake, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, double helix, East Village, ending welfare as we know it, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Ferguson, Missouri, financial deregulation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, gig economy, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Google Hangouts, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, housing crisis, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), job-hopping, Kevin Kelly, knowledge economy, Lyft, mandatory minimum, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, McMansion, medical bankruptcy, microaggression, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, obamacare, Occupy movement, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, passive income, pre–internet, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, TaskRabbit, tech bro, too big to fail, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, unpaid internship, We are the 99%, white picket fence, working poor, Works Progress Administration

As the words floated through the Constitution Center, Eric was outside, his button-down shirt soaked in sweat, unloading an enormous U-Haul full of nearly identical black suitcases. On June 7, 2008, Hillary withdrew from the campaign, telling her cheering supporters that she was proud to have put “eighteen million cracks” in the glass ceiling. A few weeks later, Haley emailed Hillary’s top aide Huma Abedin that she would be leaving before the convention to try to help Obama win. “I love you guys,” she said, “but I really want to finish this off.” * * * Haley got a job working for vice presidential nominee Joe Biden doing the same thing she did for Hillary: finding the relevant facts, assembling them in the book, making sure Biden had it when he needed it.

She ended her closing statement in the debate with “I hope to bring new ideas, and a new generation of leadership with fresh energy and independent approaches.” She won. Elise delivered her acceptance speech wearing a blue jacket, a red manicure, and white pearls. At thirty, she was then the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She said her victory would “add an additional crack to the glass ceiling for future generations of women.” Then she thanked her opponents with a bipartisan generosity that would be hard to find just two years later. “No matter their party, our democratic process is strengthened by those individuals willing to put forth their ideas, and with the courage to put their name on the ballot,” she said.

The Javits Center, the largest event space in Manhattan, glittered like an enormous prism. It was decked out in wall-to-wall Americana for the tentatively scheduled historic programming. The ceiling was made of glass, which would have made for lovely symbolism had Hillary Clinton won. Nobody mentioned that the glass ceiling was reinforced with steel beams. * * * Elise Stefanik knew exactly what was going to happen. Her upstate New York district was peppered with Trump signs, most of them handmade. She spent September and October crisscrossing her district campaigning for reelection, and saw only two Hillary Clinton signs the whole time.


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Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors by Daniel Kunitz

barriers to entry, creative destruction, feminist movement, glass ceiling, Islamic Golden Age, mental accounting, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, Upton Sinclair, Works Progress Administration

Dworkin spent two years interviewing women at various gyms in Los Angeles, and most of them, even those who used weights, expressed concerns about “getting big” and looking too masculine, “like a female bodybuilder.” Assessing these responses, Dworkin concluded that social norms (and thus both men and women) impose a “glass ceiling on women’s muscular strength,” and that women are engaged in a “conscious struggle with what constitutes an acceptable upper limit on women’s strength and size.” There can be no doubt that NFF practices have yet to shatter the glass ceiling; that outmoded assumptions continue to define the upper limit of strength and muscularity for most women. But it is equally true that, since Dworkin’s study was published, the ceiling has been raised considerably, and the struggle with it has eased.

“The 97-Pound Weakling Who Became ‘The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.’ ” Iron Game History 4, no. 4 (1996): 3–16. de la Peña, Carolyn. “Dudley Allen Sargent: Health Machines and the Energized Male Body.” Iron Game History 8, no. 2 (2003): 3–19. Diem, Carl. “Physical Culture in Ancient Egypt.” Olympic Review, 1938. Dworkin, Shari L. “ ‘Holding Back’: Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women’s Muscular Strength.” Sociological Perspectives 44, no. 3 (2001): 333–51. Eskes, Tina B., Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Eleanor M. Miller. “The Discourse of Empowerment.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 22, no. 3 (1998): 317–44. Fair, John D. “Bob Hoffman, the York Barbell Company, and the Golden Age of American Weightlifting, 1945–1960.”


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Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer by Jerry Lynn Ross, John Norberg

Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Boeing 747, Charles Lindbergh, Gene Kranz, glass ceiling, low earth orbit, Neil Armstrong, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, space junk, Ted Sorensen

Cernan P R O L O G U E xII Jim Gentleman O N E 1 Sputnik, a mouse, and blackberry pie T W O 29 “Look to your left and look to your right” T H R E E 51 “My daddy is an astronaut . . .” F O U R 79 The no-names F I V E 105 Liftoff! We have liftoff! S I x 139 “Obviously a major malfunction” S E V E N 175 Two more boarding passes E I G H T 195 The John Young glass ceiling N I N E 217 “Lock the doors” T E N 235 Blessed, happy, thankful . . . and surprised! T I M E L I N E 247 I N D E x 251 FOREWORD I n the spring of 1961, I was a young US Navy officer when President John F. Kennedy challenged the people of the United States to look to the Moon. It changed my life.

In fact, about six months later he assigned me to STS-88, the mission that would start the International Space Station assembly. I was going to do spacewalks again. And this time, instead of doing two EVAs like I had on previous missions, we would be doing three. I was elated! But little did I know that my astronaut career would soon be going to the dogs. eight The John Young glass ceiling Some astronauts have neat nicknames—Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Gordo Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, Hoot Gibson. On my sixth mission, STS-88, I picked up a nickname, but I am glad it didn’t stick. Not only did I get a strange nickname, but to my surprise, my experience working on Scott’s car came in handy.

In my heart, I was an astronaut and a spacewalker, and there was an International Space Station to assemble. I wanted to continue doing what I loved. By this time, former STS-55 crewmate Charlie Precourt was Chief of the Astronaut Office. After I came home from STS-88, I went to Charlie’s office to find out if NASA had a John Young glass ceiling. Charlie said he didn’t have any restrictions, so I requested that he check with Mr. Abbey. I wanted to find out if there was something higher up limiting astronauts to six flights. Charlie came back and told me there was no ceiling, so I told him I wanted to stick around in the Astronaut Office and try for more flights.


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The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, assortative mating, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, British Empire, call centre, capital controls, carbon footprint, central bank independence, centre right, coherent worldview, corporate governance, credit crunch, Crossrail, deglobalization, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, Edward Glaeser, en.wikipedia.org, Etonian, European colonialism, eurozone crisis, falling living standards, first-past-the-post, gender pay gap, gig economy, glass ceiling, global supply chain, global village, Great Leap Forward, illegal immigration, income inequality, informal economy, Jeremy Corbyn, job satisfaction, knowledge economy, labour market flexibility, low skilled workers, market friction, mass immigration, meritocracy, mittelstand, Neil Kinnock, New Urbanism, non-tariff barriers, North Sea oil, obamacare, old-boy network, open borders, open immigration, Peter Singer: altruism, post-industrial society, post-materialism, postnationalism / post nation state, race to the bottom, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, selection bias, shareholder value, Skype, Sloane Ranger, stem cell, the long tail, Thomas L Friedman, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, ultimatum game, upwardly mobile, wages for housework, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, working-age population, World Values Survey

The paper does, however, detect some continuing cultural/social bias in the fact that those who enter elite jobs from non-higher professional backgrounds end up earning significantly less, so are presumably not reaching the very top of the tree. (Similarly, for the growing ethnic minority middle class there is evidence of clustering at the bottom of the top, see the Policy Exchange report ‘Bittersweet Success’ on glass ceilings for ethnic minorities.)11 It may indeed be the case that the longer-term trend is for high levels of social mobility—both absolute and relative—to become ever harder to achieve, particularly at the very top and in the long tail at the bottom. Social mobility has always been ‘sticky’ downwards—once people reach a certain level of wealth, or position, their children tend not to fall back too far; this was true even in the Soviet bloc.

, Ipsos MORI, 19 January 2004, https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/792/Can-We-Have-Trust-And-Diversity-8212-Topline-Results.aspx 15.ONS dataset: ‘Population of the United Kingdom by Country of Birth and Nationality’, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/datasets/populationoftheunitedkingdombycountryofbirthandnationality 16.Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister and David Goodhart, Bittersweet Success? Glass ceilings for Britain’s ethinc minorities at the top of business and the professions, Policy Exchange, November 2016, https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PEXJ5011_Bittersweet_Success_1116_WEB.pdf 17.ONS, ‘Migration Statistics Quarterly Report, August 2016’, http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/august2016 18.ONS dataset: ‘Population of the United Kingdom by Country of Birth and Nationality’, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/datasets/populationoftheunitedkingdombycountryofbirthandnationality 19.One insider told me that senior Labour figures knew that arrival estimates were too low but thought the fact that the new arrivals were white and European would mean little friction. 20.Geoffrey Evans and Yekaterina Chzhen, Explaining Voters’ Defection from Labour over the 2005–10 Electoral Cycle: Leadership, Economics and the Rising Importance of Immigration’, ‘https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264638473_Explaining_Voters%27_Defection_from_Labour_over_the_2005–10_Electoral_Cycle_Leadership_Economics_and_the_Rising_Importance_of_Immigration 21.ONS, ‘Long-Term International Migration’, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/long-term-international-migration/index.html 22.ONS, ‘Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: August 2016’, 25 August 2016 (figure refers to non-EEA nationals), http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/august2016 23.A community worker from Leicester recently argued to me that the city was well integrated on the grounds that it had experienced no significant race riots. 24.See Geoff Dench, Minorities in the Open Society, Transaction Publishers, 1986, which should be a better-known book. 25.Frans Timmermans, ‘The EU can help Europeans rediscover the ties that bind us’, New Statesman, 23 May 2016, http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/05/eu-can-help-europeans-rediscoverties-bind-us 26.Dame Louise Casey, ‘The Casey Review: A Review into Opportunity and Integration’, December 2016, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/575973/The_Casey_Review_Report.pdf 27.Friendship figures from YouGov, ‘Why we like migrants but not immigration’, 2 March 2015, https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/03/02/why-we-like-migrants-not-immigration/ 28.Integration Hub, ‘Residential Patterns’, www.integrationhub.net 29.Census 2011, Table DC6205EW, Economic activity by religion, by sex, by age, https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011census 30.ICM Unlimited survey for Channel 4 programme ‘What Muslims really think’, 11 April 2016. 31.

‘EMP11: Employment by socio-economic classification’, Office for National Statistics, 16 November 2016, https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/employmentbysocioeconomicclassificationemp11 9.Rosa Prince, ‘David Willets: feminism has held back working men’, The Telegraph, 1 April 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8420098/David-Willets-feminism-has-held-back-working-men.html 10.Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman, ‘Introducing the Class Ceiling: Social Mobility and Britain’s Elite Occupations’, http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/pdf/Working-Paper_Introducing-the-Class-Ceiling.pdf 11.Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister and David Goodhart, ‘Bittersweet Success? Glass Ceilings for Britain’s Ethnic Minorities at the Top of Business and the Professions’, Policy Exchange, November 2016, https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/PEXJ5011_Bittersweet_Success_1116_WEB.pdf 12.Alison Wolf, The XX Factor: How Working Women are Creating a New Society, New York: Crown Publishing, 2013. 13.David Goodhart, ‘They’re wrong—social mobility is not going downhill’, The Sunday Times, 26 July 2009, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6727099.ece 8.WHAT ABOUT THE FAMILY?


The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason

Albert Einstein, augmented reality, barriers to entry, blood diamond, citizen journalism, creative destruction, digital divide, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, East Village, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, future of work, glass ceiling, global village, Hacker Ethic, haute couture, Howard Rheingold, Internet of things, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, jimmy wales, job satisfaction, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, Lao Tzu, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, Naomi Klein, new economy, New Urbanism, patent troll, peer-to-peer, prisoner's dilemma, public intellectual, RAND corporation, RFID, Richard Florida, Richard Stallman, SETI@home, side hustle, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, the long tail, Tim Cook: Apple, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog

So it was a movement that was happening that nobody else realized. It was us starting to empower ourselves.” The story of hip-hop is one of a new generation empowering itself by taking down the mainstream from the inside, and the next turn Team FUBU would take was classic hip-hop. By the midnineties FUBU was doing well but found itself stuck under a glass ceiling, unable to get distribution in many mainstream stores. This ceiling was cracked by hat number three, worn by John’s old friend and unofficial ambassador for FUBU: LL Cool J. FUBU was one of the first clothing lines to spring from the font of hip-hop culture, but by the midnineties many brands had caught on to the movement’s power as a marketing tool.

With cameras rolling and music booming, LL launched into his thirty-second freestyle as required, dropping watertight rhymes. None of the ad execs saw anything out of the ordinary when he turned and looked directly into the camera, the FUBU logo on his hat clearly visible, finishing his verse with this line: For Us, By Us, on the down low. The ad shattered FUBU’s glass ceiling, not to mention a few ad execs’ careers. “What he was saying to every hip kid in America was 180 | THE PIRATE’S DILEMMA this is a FUBU commercial, and I’m slipping it in here and they don’t even know,” says John. “It was like the Freemasons’ sign. It took Gap about a month to find out. When they did, they pulled the commercial, fired the agency and a lot of people at the Gap because of it.

A year later, they come to find out that sales at Gap to African Americans had gone up by some astronomical number, because people were going to the Gap because that’s where they thought our goods were! They reran the commercials after that, and it aired for a long period of time.” Team FUBU is now a multimillion-dollar brand playing in the big leagues. It grossed an estimated $370 million in 2006, and it operates in more than five thousand stores in some twenty-six countries. The glass ceiling is a distant memory, but FUBU has continued to grow by operating on the down low—stenciling FUBU graffiti onto storefront shutters, transmitting more Trojan horse–like commercials inside other companies’ ad campaigns,* and even recording and releasing FUBU-branded albums with the artists who helped them build the label.


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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait by Blake Bailey

airport security, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Berlin Wall, Charles Lindbergh, COVID-19, crew resource management, glass ceiling, human-factors engineering, index card, Neil Armstrong, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, overview effect, pre–internet, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Hawking

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING TO THE STARS “Given the chance, I would long ponder trading places with Eileen Collins. Her book with Jonathan Ward is a grand collection of simple, yet sensational moments she experienced—in Outer Space!—and in much that led to her getting there. What a read !” —Tom Hanks “I wrote the song ‘Beyond the Sky’ and sang it at Cape Canaveral for Eileen Collins’s maiden command voyage: ‘Once there was a girl with a dream in her heart, wild as the wind was her hope.’ This woman with the dream has turned into a serious heroine of the centuries who has taken her place among other men and women in the startling adventure of circling the Earth and leaving it behind.

—Buzz Aldrin “Eileen is living proof to youngsters and young ladies that you can do anything you want to do with your life.” —Wally Funk, Mercury 13 pilot “Eileen Collins and I trained for the shuttle together, flew jets together, and waited together for that first chance to rocket into space. In Through the Glass Ceiling, Eileen tells the inspiring story of how she rose through hard work and determination to become a rare exemplar of the ‘right stuff,’ leading her crews to success in orbit and commanding the first shuttle launch after the Columbia disaster. Read, be amazed, then get this book into the hands of young explorers.”

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it, and I hope I’ve been able to enlighten you with the excitement I felt as a leading participant in the exploration of the Earth and space. I encourage you to continue reading stories of exploration and adventure. Remember that you too can go farther, faster, and higher, just as I have. The world needs more people—women and men—to break through the glass ceiling. And to the stars? Well, as far as we humans know, the size of the universe is infinite, so you better get moving! ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Writing a book is a huge undertaking, involving research, interviews, deadlines, an enormous time commitment, and the risk of failure. After my final shuttle flight, I prioritized raising my two children.


How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings: Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women by Sarah Cooper

equal pay for equal work, Girl Boss, glass ceiling, imposter syndrome, microaggression

I like to call these my “inaction items.” Because sometimes doing nothing is the best something we can not do. So arm yourself with the knowledge of these pages, ladies. Be vigilant about hiding yourself. (Not your entire self, just the woman and/or minority part of yourself.) Scale the heights of your career and break that glass ceiling, but do it very quietly and gingerly, and be sure to make a man think he did it for you. By standing as still as possible, you will go farther than you ever imagined, as long as you didn’t imagine going too far. CHAPTER 1: DREAMS How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It In today’s competitive job market, it’s important for women to be very careful about how they present themselves.


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The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan

"World Economic Forum" Davos, airport security, Asian financial crisis, asset allocation, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Boeing 747, British Empire, business intelligence, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, corporate governance, delayed gratification, estate planning, Etonian, glass ceiling, high net worth, junk bonds, kremlinology, Larry Ellison, locking in a profit, Long Term Capital Management, Marc Andreessen, mass immigration, McMansion, medical residency, Menlo Park, new economy, old-boy network, Ponzi scheme, risk tolerance, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, short selling, Silicon Valley, sovereign wealth fund, stem cell, technology bubble, too big to fail

By electing an Indian to its helm, McKinsey left no doubt that the firm was confidently embracing a diverse and global future and turning its back on a homogeneous past. Gupta always made it clear that he thought the criticism McKinsey received for being too patrician was overblown. “Did I ever find a glass ceiling?” he rhetorically asked years later. “I never found a glass ceiling partly because McKinsey is a truly meritocratic institution and partly because most glass ceilings are people in their minds, rather than true.” Despite the obvious symbolism of McKinsey having a non-American at its helm, Gupta’s rise was important for another less-talked-about reason. At forty-five, Gupta was a member of McKinsey’s up-and-coming new guard.

“It strained the fabric of the place”: John Huey, “How McKinsey Does It: The World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm Commands Unrivaled Respect—and Prices—but Is Being Buffeted by a Host of New Challenges,” Fortune, November 1, 1993. “By the end of the 80s, there was a growing group within the firm that felt the pendulum swung too far: Email from Jeffrey Skilling, March 5, 2012. “Did I ever find a glass ceiling?”: Gupta’s remarks at Creativity and Personal Mastery class. “He got the job because two stronger personalities were competing heavily”: Interview with Bala Balachandran, May 17, 2011. “The candidate for Managing Director has to reflect the aspirations of the firm”: Emails from Jeffrey Skilling, March 4 and 5, 2012.


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Swimming With Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers by Joris Luyendijk

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, bank run, barriers to entry, Bonfire of the Vanities, bonus culture, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collective bargaining, corporate raider, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, Emanuel Derman, financial deregulation, financial independence, Flash crash, glass ceiling, Gordon Gekko, high net worth, hiring and firing, information asymmetry, inventory management, job-hopping, Large Hadron Collider, light touch regulation, London Whale, Money creation, Nick Leeson, offshore financial centre, regulatory arbitrage, Satyajit Das, selection bias, shareholder value, sovereign wealth fund, the payments system, too big to fail

And they’re overly nice about the scarf, asking: do you shake hands? I have to say, this is really nice and quite different from my experiences in continental Europe.’ I may have run into the lucky ones but none of my interviewees from a ‘minority’ had encountered open discrimination at their banks. The glass ceiling is as intact as it is elsewhere in society, yet two women at brokerages said independently that they preferred working with bankers as opposed to, say, fellow brokers or clients. ‘The big banks have diversity policies so it’s not just white straight males you meet there,’ said one. The other believed ‘investment bankers are so terrified of lawsuits that they would rather bite off their tongue than say something sexist’.

A final world about women and finance. The difference of opinion between young female interviewees who said they were adamantly opposed quotas and their more experienced female colleagues who were in favour would have made for a great chapter. In the end I have decided to leave out a discussion of the glass ceiling since I believe the core of the problem with finance to be the structural conflicts and perverse incentives and not the gender of those responding to them. It is not at all inconceivable that on the whole men respond differently to the temptations that global finance offers them than women. That is probably what IMF president Christine Lagarde alluded to when she produced one of the best quotes I have come across during the research project: ‘What if it had been Lehman Sisters?’


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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time by Allen Gannett

Alfred Russel Wallace, collective bargaining, content marketing, data science, David Brooks, deliberate practice, Desert Island Discs, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, gentrification, glass ceiling, iterative process, lone genius, longitudinal study, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, McMansion, pattern recognition, profit motive, randomized controlled trial, recommendation engine, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, sentiment analysis, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, South of Market, San Francisco, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, too big to fail, uber lyft, work culture

Brenda would become the head of story for The Lion King (the first woman to hold a head of story role in a major studio animated film), and from there go on to codirect Dreamworks’s The Prince of Egypt, becoming the first woman to direct a major studio animated film. She later shattered another glass ceiling as a writer and director of Disney-Pixar’s Brave, becoming the first female winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Creating worlds is where Brenda Chapman feels most comfortable. As we spoke via videoconference, one thing she made clear to me is that creating a movie is about as far as you can get from a solo process.

Brenda Chapman’s mother: Details relating to Chapman’s life and works drawn mostly from Jim Vorel, “Lincoln Grad Proud of Her ‘Brave’ Oscar,” Herald & Review, May 9, 2013, http://herald-review.com/​entertainment/​local/​lincoln-grad-proud-of-her-brave-oscar/​article_689eee72-b8e6-11e2-8919-0019bb2963f4.html; Nicole Sperling, “When the Glass Ceiling Crashed on Brenda Chapman,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/​2011/​may/​25/​entertainment/​la-et-women-animation-sidebar-20110525; and my interviews with her. Benj Pasek is exuberant: Details relating to Pasek and Paul drawn mostly from Michael Paulson, “What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz with Your Best Friend,” New York Times, November 10, 2016, http://nytimes.com/​2016/​11/​13/​theater/​benj-pasek-justin-paul-dear-evan-hansen.html; Alexa Valiente, “ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Creators Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Say the Musical Almost Had a Different Storyline,” ABC News, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/​Entertainment/​dear-evan-hansen-creators-benj-pasek-justin-paul/​story?


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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph E. Stiglitz

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accelerated depreciation, accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Alan Greenspan, Asian financial crisis, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon tax, Carmen Reinhart, carried interest, classic study, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collective bargaining, company town, computer age, corporate governance, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, deindustrialization, Detroit bankruptcy, discovery of DNA, Doha Development Round, everywhere but in the productivity statistics, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, financial innovation, full employment, gentrification, George Akerlof, ghettoisation, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global macro, global supply chain, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, income inequality, income per capita, information asymmetry, job automation, Kenneth Rogoff, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, light touch regulation, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, market fundamentalism, mass incarceration, moral hazard, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, new economy, obamacare, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, Paul Samuelson, plutocrats, purchasing power parity, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, rent-seeking, rising living standards, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, school vouchers, secular stagnation, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, subprime mortgage crisis, The Chicago School, the payments system, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, trade liberalization, transaction costs, transfer pricing, trickle-down economics, Turing machine, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, urban sprawl, very high income, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, We are the 99%, white flight, winner-take-all economy, working poor, working-age population

Becker, would attempt to show how in truly competitive labor markets discrimination couldn’t exist. While I and others wrote multiple papers explaining the sophistry in the argument, his was an argument that fell on receptive ears. Like so many looking back over the past 50 years, I cannot but be struck by the gap between our aspirations then and what we have accomplished. True, one “glass ceiling” has been shattered: we have an African-American president. But Dr. King realized that the struggle for social justice had to be conceived broadly: it was a battle not just against racial segregation and discrimination, but for greater economic equality and justice for all Americans. It was not for nothing that the march’s organizers, Bayard Rustin and A.

Some of it has to do with persistent discrimination. Latinos and African-Americans still get paid less than whites, and women still get paid less than men, even though they recently surpassed men in the number of advanced degrees they obtain. Though gender disparities in the workplace are less than they once were, there is still a glass ceiling: women are sorely underrepresented in top corporate positions and constitute a minuscule fraction of CEOs. Discrimination, however, is only a small part of the picture. Probably the most important reason for lack of equality of opportunity is education: both its quantity and quality. After World War II, Europe made a major effort to democratize its education systems.

A quiet battle became less so, and this article may have helped turn the tide.2 A critical number of senators on the Senate Banking Committee (which has to approve such nominations) made it clear that they would not support his nomination, and so the battle ended. Part of what was at issue was the glass ceiling—another aspect of America’s inequality, reflected in differences in incomes and opportunities across gender. Yellen had distinguished herself, not only in managing the San Francisco Fed and serving as vice chair of the Fed, but in making forecasts that were more accurate than others. (The administration’s forecasts, in which Summers played a central role, were notoriously off the mark.


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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, algorithmic bias, augmented reality, Bernie Sanders, Cambridge Analytica, collective bargaining, crowdsourcing, data science, Diane Coyle, Donald Trump, falling living standards, first-past-the-post, gender pay gap, gig economy, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, Hacker Ethic, independent contractor, Indoor air pollution, informal economy, lifelogging, low skilled workers, mental accounting, meta-analysis, Nate Silver, new economy, obamacare, Oculus Rift, offshore financial centre, pattern recognition, phenotype, post-industrial society, randomized controlled trial, remote working, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, speech recognition, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steven Levy, tech bro, the built environment, urban planning, women in the workforce, work culture , zero-sum game

issuusl=ignore Chapter 3 1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/18/gender.uk 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34602822 3 https://eng.fjarmalaraduneyti.is/media/Gender_Equality_in_Iceland_012012.pdf 4 http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellbeing/wellbeing/what-is-life-really-like-for-women-in-iceland-the-worlds-most-womanfriendly-country-20161031-gsez8j.html 5 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf 6 https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/03/daily-chart-0 7 McKinsey Global Institute (2015), The Power of Parity: how advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth 8 https://ourworldindata.org/women-in-the-labor-force-determinants 9 Veerle, Miranda (2011), ‘Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work Around the World’, OECD Social, employment and migration working papers no.116, OECD 10 http://www.pwc.com.au/australia-in-transition/publications/understanding-the-unpaid-economy-mar17.pdf 11 Chopra, D. and Zambelli, E. (2017), ‘No Time to Rest: Women’s Lived Experiences of Balancing Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work’, Institute of Development Studies 12 Veerle (2011) 13 Dinh, Huong, Strazdins, Lyndall and Welsh, Jennifer (2017), ‘Hour-glass ceilings: Work-hour thresholds, gendered health inequities’, Social Science & Medicine 176, 42–51 14 http://www.oecd.org/dev/development-gender/Unpaid_care_work.pdf 15 https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Women-and-Dementia-A-Marginalised-Majority1.pdf 16 Ibid. 17 Ibid. 18 Ibid. 19 https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/time-spent-in-leisure-activities-in-2014-by-gender-age-and-educational-attainment.htm 20 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/menenjoyfivehoursmoreleisuretimeperweekthanwomen/2018–01-09 21 Dinh, Strazdins and Welsh (2017) 22 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GGGR16/WEF_Global_Gender_Gap_Report_2016.pdf 23 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/Resources/244362–1265299949041/6766328–1270752196897/Gender_Infra-structure2.pdf 24 L.

res=9807E3D8123EF932A-15751C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 11 http://www.weeklystandard.com/colin-powell-on-hillary-clinton-unbridled-ambition-greedy-not-transformational/article/2004328 12 http://www.teenvogue.com/story/hillary-clinton-laughs-too-ambitious-attack 13 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3900744/Assange-says-Clinton-eaten-alive-ambitions-denies-Russia-Democratic-email-hacks-interview-Kremlin-s-TV-channel.html 14 http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/hillary-clinton-is-too-ambitious-to-be-the-first-f-11229 15 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/are-we-born-racist/201010/is-hillary-clinton-pathologically-ambitious 16 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167210371949 17 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103108000334 18 Cikara, Mina and Fiske, Susan T. (2009), ‘Warmth, competence, and ambivalent sexism: Vertical assault and collateral damage’, in Barreto, Manuela, Ryan, Michelle K. and Schmitt, Michael T. (eds.), The glass ceiling in the 21st century: Understanding barriers to gender equality, Washington 19 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160829095050.htm 20 Hekman, David, Johnson, Stefanie, Foo, Maw-Der and Yang, Wei (2017), ‘Does Diversity-Valuing Behavior Result in Diminished Performance Ratings for Non-White and Female Leaders?’

CMP=share_btn_tw 69 https://phys.org/news/2017–04-uk-hidden-homeless-lone-women.html 70 http://www.feantsa.org/download/feantsa-ejh-11–1_a1-v045913941269604492255.pdf 71 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/fast-facts-4-things-know-about-women-and-homelessness-canada 72 http://www.feantsa.org/download/feantsa-ejh-11–1_a1-v045913941269604492255.pdf 73 https://phys.org/news/2017–04-uk-hidden-homeless-lone-women.html 74 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/19/sex-rent-logical-extension-leaving-housing-to-market 75 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/fast-facts-4-things-know-about-women-and-homelessness-canada 76 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/088626001016008001 77 https://www.bustle.com/articles/190092-this-is-how-homeless-women-cope-with-their-periods 78 https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/aug/22/sex-in-return-for-shelter-homeless-women-face-desperate-choices-government-theresa-may 79 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11508497/TheHomelessPeriod-Campaign-for-homeless-women-to-have-free-tampons.html 80 http://thehomelessperiod.com/ 81 https://www.change.org/p/help-the-homeless-on-their-period-thehomelessperiod/u/19773587 82 https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/nyc-will-provide-tampons-in-schools-shelters.html 83 http://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/latest/2008/4/4815db792/corporate-gift-highlights-sanitation-problems-faced-female-refugees.html; http://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-refugees-periods-feature-idUSKBN16F1UU 84 https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/images/zdocs/Refugee-Women-on-the-European-Route.pdf; https://www.globalone.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2017/03/SYRIA-REPORT-FINAL-ONLINE.pdf; https://globalone.org.uk/2017/05/a-14-year-olds-heart-wrenching-tale/ 85 http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/africa/burundi/upholding-women-and-girls-dignity-managing-menstrual-hygiene-in-emergency-situations-62536/ 86 January 2016, https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/images/zdocs/Refugee-Women-on-the-European-Route.pdf; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/world/asia/effort-to-help-filipino-women-falters-un-says.html 87 http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/africa/burundi/upholding-women-and-girls-dignity-managing-menstrual-hygiene-in-emergency-situations-62536/ 88 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-womens-day-refugees-periods-feature-idUSKBN16F1UU 89 https://www.globalone.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SYRIA-REPORT-FINAL-ONLINE.pdf Afterword 1 http://discovermagazine.com/2006/mar/knit-theory 2 http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/crocheting.php 3 https://www.brainpickings.org/2009/04/24/margaret-wertheim-institute-for-figuring/ 4 http://discovermagazine.com/2006/mar/knit-theory 5 Ibid. 6 http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/crocheting.php 7 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/nyregion/professor-lets-her-fingers-do-the-talking.html 8 Cikara, Mina and Fiske, Susan T. (2009), ‘Warmth, competence, and ambivalent sexism: Vertical assault and collateral damage’, in Barreto, Manuela, Ryan, Michelle K. and Schmitt, Michael T. (eds.), The glass ceiling in the 21st century: Understanding barriers to gender equality, Washington DC 9 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00004-000-0015-0.pdf 10 https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/ 11 http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016_Celluloid_Ceiling_Report.pdf 12 http://wmc.3cdn.net/dcdb0bcb4b0283f501_mlbres23x.pdf 13 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/01/popular_history_why_are_so_many_history_books_about_men_by_men.html?


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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, active measures, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, air gap, Airbnb, algorithmic management, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bike sharing, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, cable laying ship, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Cass Sunstein, cloud computing, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, crisis actor, data is the new oil, data science, decentralized internet, deep learning, deepfake, deglobalization, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, deplatforming, digital nomad, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, dual-use technology, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, fail fast, fake news, Filter Bubble, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, geopolitical risk, glass ceiling, global pandemic, global supply chain, Google bus, Google Chrome, GPT-3, green new deal, information security, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, knowledge economy, Larry Ellison, lockdown, Loma Prieta earthquake, low earth orbit, low skilled workers, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary Meeker, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Mohammed Bouazizi, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, natural language processing, Network effects, new economy, one-China policy, open economy, OpenAI, Parler "social media", Peter Thiel, QAnon, QR code, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, reshoring, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Russian election interference, Salesforce, Sam Altman, satellite internet, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, smart grid, SoftBank, Solyndra, South China Sea, SpaceX Starlink, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stuxnet, supply-chain attack, Susan Wojcicki, tech worker, techlash, technoutopianism, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, TSMC, Twitter Arab Spring, uber lyft, undersea cable, Unsafe at Any Speed, Valery Gerasimov, vertical integration, Wargames Reagan, Westphalian system, white picket fence, WikiLeaks, Y Combinator, zero-sum game

id=41043609. 23 Mary McNamara, “The hug that will go down in history,” Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2016, https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obama-clinton-hug-20160728-snap-story.html. 24 Christopher Allen, “User Clip: Hillary Clinton Breaks the Glass Ceiling,” C-SPAN, August 1, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4616537/user-clip-hillary-clinton-breaks-glass-ceiling. 25 Tom Hamburger and Karen Tumulty, “WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents about Clinton and internal deliberations,” Washington Post, July 22, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/22/on-eve-of-democratic-convention-wikileaks-releases-thousands-of-documents-about-clinton-the-campaign-and-internal-deliberations/. 26 Rebecca Shabad, “Donald Trump: I hope Russia finds Hillary Clinton’s emails,” CBS News, July 27, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-i-hope-russia-finds-hillary-clintons-emails/. 27 David A.

Democratic senators talked up Hillary’s accomplishments and speakers like Khizr Khan—the Gold Star father of a fallen Muslim army captain—excoriated Trump.22 When Hillary made a surprise appearance to embrace Obama, the convention hall erupted in cheers.23 There was a video showing all the presidents, followed by Hillary symbolically “breaking” a glass ceiling.24 Yet there was also a disconcerting undercurrent. Just a few days before the Democratic convention, the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks dumped a number of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee, some of which seemed to show the DNC’s preference for Hillary over her main primary rival, Bernie Sanders.25 The emails fueled intraparty feuds at a moment when the Democrats most hoped to be coming together.


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The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy by Dr. Jim Taylor

Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, British Empire, business cycle, call centre, Cornelius Vanderbilt, dark matter, Donald Trump, estate planning, full employment, glass ceiling, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, means of production, passive income, performance metric, plutocrats, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, Ronald Reagan, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, Thorstein Veblen, trickle-down economics, vertical integration, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

For example, Asians (defined broadly to include those from the Indian subcontinent) constitute approximately 8 percent and rising of the wealthy population, compared to approximately 3 percent of the U.S. population as a whole. Even more dramatic is a growing gender diversity. Whereas wealthy industrialists were almost exclusively male (and the corporate era of wealth was when the phrase ‘‘glass ceiling’’ entered the lexicon), the role of women today among the financial elite is radically different. Although still far short of a 50/50 gender split, a growing number of women entrepreneurs and executives created the wealth in their households; and even among those in which women weren’t the primary breadwinners, they have come to hold considerable sway over every aspect of family and financial life.

., 53 emotional connections, of luxury brands, 103 employee relationships, 50–51 endorsement deals, 59 Entertainment Weekly, 142 entrepreneurs challenges, 53–55 goals, 140–141 as politicians, 210–211 wealth, 35–39, 44 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 13 Gardner, Jonathan, 67 Gates, Bill, 6–7, 28, 38, 153, 158 Gates, Melinda, 153 gender diversity, 62 236 Index General Mills, 33 General Motors, 31, 32 Germany, 160 G.I. Bill, 34 Girard, Stephen, 24 giving, transformational, 190–194 ‘‘glass ceiling,’’ 62 global citizens, 155–156 ‘‘global wealth oligarchy,’’ 156 globalization, 163 globizens, 156 dynamics of, 166 and international wealth explosion, 156–158 relationships, 161 shared mind-set, 158–161 Golden, Claudia, 31 Goldman Sachs, 117 Google, 196 Gourmet, 142, 146, 152 government regulation, 25 gravitational pull of money, 4, 7–9 ‘‘great compression,’’ 31 Great Depression, 29, 30 Great Expectations (Dickens), 15 Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 15 Greece, 205 Greenspan, Alan, 7 Gucci Group, 95 guilt, 69 happiness, money and, 65–70 Harrison Group, 207, 228 holiday retail forecast, 214 health care, 215–216 hecamillionaires, 4, 5 Helmsley, Leona, 194 Helu, Carlos Slim, 159 Hemingway, Ernest, 73 Hennessy, 101 Hepburn Act (1906), 26 Hermès bag, 99–100 Hewlett, William, 38–39 Hidden Persuaders, The (Packard), 33 Hilton, Paris, 15 hospital, 2 household income, 1968 to 2006, 203 housing, 81–82 of globizens, 161 How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), 34 humility, 46 IBM, 32, 101 IKEA, 160 impulse shoppers, vs. planning, 79–80 incentives, by retail store, 79 income after-tax, 1979 to 2004, 203–204 to define wealth, 5 discretionary, 10 household, 1968 to 2006, 203 income tax, 26, 30 India, 160 Industrial Revolution, 25 industrial wealth, 24–30 inherited wealth, 42 intelligent shopping, 84–88 international travel, 161–162 Internet, 64, 140, 162 for shopping, 86–87 for shopping research, 179 sophisticatering, 109 interpersonal caution, by newly wealthy, 119 interviewing process, 14–15 investments options, 8 portfolio, 122 Iraq war, 69 isolation, 70 Jacobs, Marc, 100 J.C.


Frommer's New York City Day by Day by Hilary Davidson

Berlin Wall, buttonwood tree, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Donald Trump, East Village, glass ceiling, Saturday Night Live

For the millions who arrived in New York by ship, Lady Liberty was their first glimpse of America. A gift from France to the United States, the statue was designed by sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and unveiled on October 28, 1886. Visitors now have access to the base of the statue and can explore the Statue of Liberty Museum, peer into the inner structure through a glass ceiling near the base of the statue, and enjoy views from the observation deck. Tip: The Staten Island Ferry (a free 25 min. trip) provides spectacular skyline views of Manhattan) and is a wonderful way to see the harbor. You’ll pass by (though not stop at) the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Check www. siferry.com for more information

For Annie and the 12 million immigrants who subsequently entered the U.S. through Ellis Island, Lady Liberty was likely their first glimpse of America. The statue was slated to commemorate 100 years of American independence in 1876. But it wasn’t until 1886 that the statue was finally dedicated on U.S. soil. On Liberty Island, you can explore the Statue of Liberty Museum, peer into the inner structure through a glass ceiling near the base of the statue, and enjoy views from the observation deck atop a 16-story pedestal. On Ellis Island, you can take self-guided or ranger tours of the immigration complex and view exhibits at the Ellis Island Immigration 2 ★★ = National Museum of the American Indian. Long The Interior of Trinity Church.


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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis

Abraham Maslow, Airbnb, big-box store, Boeing 747, Cal Newport, call centre, content marketing, corporate social responsibility, David Heinemeier Hansson, digital nomad, drop ship, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, follow your passion, fulfillment center, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, growth hacking, Inbox Zero, independent contractor, index fund, job automation, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Naomi Klein, passive investing, Paul Graham, pets.com, remote work: asynchronous communication, remote working, Results Only Work Environment, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social bookmarking, software as a service, Steve Jobs, supply-chain management, TED Talk, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, uber lyft, web application, William MacAskill, Y Combinator, Y2K

Keeping his company of one small (just him) enabled him to set his own flexible hours, so he could coach Miranda’s swim and basketball teams on some days and then work in the evenings instead. Miranda made her first foray into a postschool career with startups in Silicon Valley. While she enjoyed the friendships, travel, and community these jobs gave her, she also found herself hitting a glass ceiling fairly hard. Although the mostly white, wealthy, and male leadership preached total inclusivity and open values to their communities, she was constantly met with resistance on her own career growth. This led her to venture out on her own, where she could be more autonomous and have more control over the limits to her career—or scrap them altogether.

The Census Bureau data shows that each year it becomes easier and less risky to work for yourself and still make a decent living. You can outsource or hire freelancers to cover tasks that were traditionally done by an employee. And unlike a corporation, you, as the boss, can’t be downsized or hit a gender-based glass ceiling. As long as you’re doing great work that’s in demand, working for yourself has no limits—or, as we’ll see next, only smart upper limits that you put in place yourself. Upper Bounds Most businesses set goals and targets, but few consider having an upper bound to them. Paying attention instead to the lower bound of a goal, they focus on ever-exceeding increases in areas like profit and reach and set goals like, “I want to make at least $1 million this quarter,” or, “We need to grow our mailing list by 2,000 people per day.”


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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

affirmative action, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, butterfly effect, citizen journalism, clean water, colonial rule, crowdsourcing, fake news, feminist movement, gentrification, glass ceiling, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, microaggression, Skype, Snapchat, transatlantic slave trade, uber lyft, upwardly mobile

Racism is our names on our résumés being perceived as less competent and resulting in half as many job-interview callbacks as others with identical qualifications. It is the fact that Black people with college degrees often make the same as or less than a white person with a high school diploma. For women, we talk about glass ceilings; for Black people, there’s often an iron gate. For Black women, well, we’ve got a glass ceiling with iron reinforcements. Racism is not always white hoods and burning crosses. Sometimes, it’s blue uniforms and black robes. There’s way too much haste to imprison Black women, men, and children. So much so that police will cuff (and sometimes kill) Black children that they incorrectly perceive to be a threat.


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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, David Ashton

active measures, affirmative action, An Inconvenient Truth, barriers to entry, Branko Milanovic, BRICs, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, classic study, collective bargaining, corporate governance, creative destruction, credit crunch, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, deindustrialization, deskilling, disruptive innovation, Dutch auction, Ford Model T, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, future of work, glass ceiling, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, immigration reform, income inequality, industrial cluster, industrial robot, intangible asset, job automation, Jon Ronson, Joseph Schumpeter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, market bubble, market design, meritocracy, neoliberal agenda, new economy, Paul Samuelson, pensions crisis, post-industrial society, profit maximization, purchasing power parity, QWERTY keyboard, race to the bottom, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, shared worldview, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, sovereign wealth fund, stem cell, tacit knowledge, tech worker, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, trade liberalization, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, vertical integration, winner-take-all economy, working poor, zero-sum game

They are going to be really grateful for the chance to work in a call center.” A Chinese banking executive also told us that an ethnic hierarchy worked in his bank because there was widespread resentment of a glass ceiling for local Chinese employees, as all the talent that had been fast tracked appeared to come from Western countries. Competitive pressures may break some of the glass ceilings associated with ethnic hierarchies. One major bank had little doubt that the globalization of talent would have implications for workers in Europe and the United States, as they moved a lot of work to India that was previously undertaken by college graduates in New York, London, or The War for Talent 89 Frankfurt.


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The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series) by James Bloodworth

Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Bob Geldof, Boris Johnson, cognitive dissonance, Downton Abbey, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, income inequality, light touch regulation, meritocracy, precariat, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the strength of weak ties, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, We are the 99%, zero-sum game

These upwardly mobile flag-bearers of the meritocracy have typically been contrasted with ‘shirkers’ – the Burberry-clad layabouts who supposedly skulk behind net curtains glancing fearfully at their aspirational peers as the latter head off to work. With the creation of a meritocracy in mind, in 2008 the Conservatives released a report entitled ‘Through the Glass Ceiling: A Conservative Agenda for Social Mobility’. The Liberal Democrats share this aspiration. The former party leader Nick Clegg claimed in 2012 that social mobility was the coalition government’s ‘central social preoccupation’.6 The culmination of this rhetoric was a cross-departmental strategy published in 2011 with the central claim that ‘improving social mobility is the principal goal of the government’s social policy’.


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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Brexit referendum, BRICs, British Empire, Columbian Exchange, commoditize, demographic dividend, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, full employment, gender pay gap, gentrification, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, global reserve currency, Great Leap Forward, Gunnar Myrdal, Hans Rosling, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, income inequality, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, John Snow's cholera map, Kibera, knowledge worker, labor-force participation, Mark Zuckerberg, megacity, New Urbanism, nuclear winter, off grid, offshore financial centre, out of africa, Potemkin village, purchasing power parity, reserve currency, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, urban planning, working-age population, young professional, zero-sum game

“And also it’s really difficult to find the right guy. And my dad says, if you don’t find him, just don’t get married.” As for children, “If I get married, I only want one child,” Soo Yeon declares. The others agree. Maybe none, maybe one, but no more than one. “Korean working women face so many other disadvantages,” explains Soojin. “It’s the glass ceiling in Korea. It’s very hard to pursue our career while also raising children.” Millennials in Korea face daunting challenges. Their parents were part of the miraculous, one-generation phenomenon of explosive economic growth. But there was no time for the Korean state to develop a proper pension plan for retired workers.

Crime rates go down—thanks to there being fewer young males from damaged homes at risk of joining gangs or getting into other kinds of trouble—thus reducing police and penitentiary costs. But as women get older and still choose not to have children, the consequences become more mixed. Although women are still far from achieving full equality, they are closing the gap and banging on that glass ceiling. In 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade, a typical woman made 57 percent of what a man earned. By 2016, the figure had reached 80 percent.161 That’s still far too wide a gap, but all trend lines are encouraging. Women outnumber men at universities: 72 percent of woman high school graduates proceed immediately to college, compared to 61 percent of men.162 Fifty-five percent of the students in medical schools in the United Kingdom are women.163 In the United States, about 40 percent of chemists and material scientists and 30 percent of environmental scientists and geoscientists are women.164 This is still not full equality, but again, the gap is closing.


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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

23andMe, Aaron Swartz, agricultural Revolution, algorithmic trading, Anne Wojcicki, Anthropocene, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, autonomous vehicles, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, call centre, Chekhov's gun, Chris Urmson, cognitive dissonance, Columbian Exchange, computer age, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Deng Xiaoping, don't be evil, driverless car, drone strike, European colonialism, experimental subject, falling living standards, Flash crash, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane: The New Division of Labor, glass ceiling, global village, Great Leap Forward, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of writing, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, job automation, John Markoff, Kevin Kelly, lifelogging, low interest rates, means of production, Mikhail Gorbachev, Minecraft, Moneyball by Michael Lewis explains big data, Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay, mutually assured destruction, new economy, Nick Bostrom, pattern recognition, peak-end rule, Peter Thiel, placebo effect, Ray Kurzweil, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, stem cell, Steven Pinker, telemarketer, The future is already here, The Future of Employment, too big to fail, trade route, Turing machine, Turing test, ultimatum game, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, zero-sum game

The Japanese in the 1990s were as satisfied – or dissatisfied – as they were in the 1950s.34 It appears that our happiness bangs against some mysterious glass ceiling that does not allow it to grow despite all our unprecedented accomplishments. Even if we provide free food for everybody, cure all diseases and ensure world peace, it won’t necessarily shatter that glass ceiling. Achieving real happiness is not going to be much easier than overcoming old age and death. The glass ceiling of happiness is held in place by two stout pillars, one psychological, the other biological. On the psychological level, happiness depends on expectations rather than objective conditions.


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Your Computer Is on Fire by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip

"Susan Fowler" uber, 2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, affirmative action, Airbnb, algorithmic bias, AlphaGo, AltaVista, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, An Inconvenient Truth, Asilomar, autonomous vehicles, Big Tech, bitcoin, Bletchley Park, blockchain, Boeing 737 MAX, book value, British Empire, business cycle, business process, Californian Ideology, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, carbon footprint, Charles Babbage, cloud computing, collective bargaining, computer age, computer vision, connected car, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, creative destruction, cryptocurrency, dark matter, data science, Dennis Ritchie, deskilling, digital divide, digital map, don't be evil, Donald Davies, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, en.wikipedia.org, European colonialism, fake news, financial innovation, Ford Model T, fulfillment center, game design, gentrification, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, global supply chain, Grace Hopper, hiring and firing, IBM and the Holocaust, industrial robot, informal economy, Internet Archive, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, job automation, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Ken Thompson, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, Landlord’s Game, Lewis Mumford, low-wage service sector, M-Pesa, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, mobile money, moral panic, move fast and break things, Multics, mutually assured destruction, natural language processing, Neal Stephenson, new economy, Norbert Wiener, off-the-grid, old-boy network, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), packet switching, pattern recognition, Paul Graham, pink-collar, pneumatic tube, postindustrial economy, profit motive, public intellectual, QWERTY keyboard, Ray Kurzweil, Reflections on Trusting Trust, Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, Salesforce, sentiment analysis, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, smart cities, Snapchat, speech recognition, SQL injection, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, tacit knowledge, tech worker, techlash, technoutopianism, telepresence, the built environment, the map is not the territory, Thomas L Friedman, TikTok, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, undersea cable, union organizing, vertical integration, warehouse robotics, WikiLeaks, wikimedia commons, women in the workforce, Y2K

Yet its makeup does not reflect this—it is deeply skewed in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and many other categories, toward historically privileged groups. Gender discrimination, in particular, is a major stumbling block for the high-tech industry—so much so that even some of the most powerful, white women feel they need to admonish themselves and their peers to “lean in” to combat sexism and break through the glass ceiling.1 This belief in the promise of a more equal future, if only women would try harder, seems alluring if one takes it on faith that Silicon Valley’s goal is to measurably improve itself. But a culture of rampant sexual harassment, persistent racial inequalities in positions of power, and pay and promotion inequalities industry-wide shows that Silicon Valley culture is mired firmly in the past, even as companies claim to be building a better future.2 From sexist manifestos on how women’s supposed intellectual inferiority disqualifies them from tech careers, to golden parachutes for serial sexual harassers at corporations that simultaneously choose not to cooperate with federal equal pay investigations, to platforms that position misogynist and racist hate speech and threats of sexual assault as just a normal part of online discourse, it is no surprise that women workers in the tech industry might internalize sexism and blame themselves—particularly because when they speak out they tend to lose their jobs.3 Online, Black women, and particularly Black trans women, are targeted with inordinate amounts of hatred, yet the platforms that enable it refuse to seriously address the harms they are causing.

People who started companies in the nascent software services industry in the 1960s were making a big gamble that companies would pay for software as a standalone product after spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy a mainframe. But some people who set up software companies in this period did so because they felt they had no other choice. The most famous and, eventually, most successful of these software startups was headed by Stephanie “Steve” Shirley—a woman who had previously worked for the government until the glass ceiling had made it impossible for her to advance any further. Born in Germany, Shirley had been a child refugee during World War II. She was saved from being murdered by the Nazis when she was brought to England with 10,000 other Jewish children on the Kindertransport.20 Shirley often credited her escape from the genocide in Europe as a primary reason for her later drive to succeed: she felt she had to make her life “worth saving.”21 After leaving school, she went to work at the prestigious Dollis Hill Post Office Research Station in the 1950s, the same government research center where Tommy Flowers had built the Colossus computers, and she worked with Flowers briefly.

See also Gender inequality anti-, 144 Ferraiolo, Angela, 235 Fibonacci sequence, 275–277 Fido, Bulletin Board System, 322–324 FidoNet, 322–326, 327, 333 demise, 326 nodes, 322–324 zonemail, 322 Fire crisis, 6, 22–24, 159 crowded theatre, 363, 373 flames, 267, 368 gaming, 233, 242, 245 infrastructures, 313–333 passim, 322 optimism, 309 physical, 5, 44, 321 pyrocene, 364 spread, 6–7 and technologies, relationship to, 13, 111, 313 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 22 typography, 213, 227 your computer is on, 4, 232 First Round, 265 Fiber optic link around the globe (FLAG), 101 FLAG, 101 Flanagan, Mary, 235 Flickering signifier, 284 Flores, Fernando, 79 Flowers, Tommy, 143 Forecasting, 6, 57, 110 FOSS (Free and open-source software), 191 414 gang, 287–288 Fowler, Susan, 254 France (French), 39, 117, 145, 216, 219, 221, 320 French (language), 341, 344, 380 Free and open-source software, 191 Free speech, 59, 61–62, 373–374 Friedman, Thomas, 308 Friendster, 17, 313 Future Ace, 299 Games big game companies, 245–246 computer, 232–233 limits of, 232–233, 243, 244–245 rhetoric vs. reality, 232 skinning, 233–236 video, 241, 246 Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO), 58 Gates, Bill, 18, 29 Gem Future Academy, 299 Gender inequality, 4–6, 8, 21, 136, 184, 187, 381 artificial intelligence, 121, 127–128 British civil service, 140, 144–145, 148, 150–152 hiring gaps, 253–257, 259–260, 267, 367 and IBM, 159–175 passim internet’s structural, 97, 99, 102, 109–110 and robotics, 199–204 stereotyping, 106 technical design, 370 of work, 302–303, 307–309, 367, 375 Gender Resource Center, 298 Gendered Innovations initiative, 200 Germany, 221, 290, 341 IBM and West, 160–161, 166–175 Nazi, 15, 63, 143 Gerritsen, Tim, 238 Ghana, 45, 149f, 330 Gilded Age, 13, 32 Glass ceiling, 136, 143 Global North, 191, 324–325 Global South, 91–92, 94, 309, 325, 333, 367 Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications network, 327–328 Global Voices, 331 Glushkov, Viktor M., 77–78, 83 Google, 5, 7, 84, 87, 160, 201, 254, 263, 318, 321, 329, 333 advertising, 136–137 Alphabet, 31, 54 AlphaGo, 7 business concerns, 17 Docs, 224 Drive, 224 employees, 23, 207, 262 ethics board, 22 hiring, 257 Home, 179, 180, 184, 189, 190t image recognition, 4, 120 original motto, (“don’t be evil”), 17, 22 Photos, 265 search, 66, 203, 328 voice recognition, 188 Graham, Paul, 256 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, 245 GRC (Gender Resource Center), 298 Great book tourism, 366–367, 374 GreenNet (UK), 324–325 Grubhub, 210 Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network, 327–328 GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network, 327–328 G-Tech Foundation, 298, 301 Guest, Arthur, 217 Hacking, 15, 81, 87, 256, 266, 287, 291 hacker, 263–264, 266, 287, 291 tourist, 100–102 Haddad, Selim, 216–218, 220 Hangul, 7, 341–344, 351 Hanscom Air Force Base Electronic Systems Division, 274 Harvard University, 14, 257, 349 Hashing, 57, 66, 124–126, 129 #DREAMerHack, 266 #YesWeCode, 253, 264–266 Hayes, Patrick, 52 Haymarket riots, 168 Health insurance, 53 Hebrew, 217, 222, 224–225, 341, 343–344, 354 Henderson, Amy, 265 Heretic, 237 Heterarchy, 86t, 87 Heteronormative, 139, 154 Hewlett-Packard, 318 High tech, 12–13, 21, 35, 37, 46, 147–148 sexism in, 136–138, 152–153 High-level languages (HLL), 275, 277–278, 284, 290 Hindi, 190, 215, 342, 355f Hiring.


Lonely Planet Belgium & Luxembourg by Lonely Planet

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, bike sharing, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, centre right, charter city, colonial rule, coronavirus, COVID-19, friendly fire, gentrification, glass ceiling, Kickstarter, Louis Pasteur, Peace of Westphalia, QR code, ride hailing / ride sharing, three-masted sailing ship, urban renewal

Belga Queen BrusselsBELGIAN€€ (map Google map; %02-217 21 87; www.belgaqueen.be; Rue du Fossé aux Loups 32; mains €18-25, weekday lunch €16; hnoon-2.30pm & 7pm-midnight; mDe Brouckère) Belgian cuisine is given a chic, modern twist within a magnificent, if reverberant, 19th-century bank building. Classical stained-glass ceilings and marble columns are hidden behind an indecently hip oyster counter and wide-ranging beer and cocktail bar (open noon till late). In the former bank vaults beneath, there’s a cigar lounge that morphs into a nightclub after 10pm Wednesday to Saturday. KokobETHIOPIAN€€ (map Google map; %02-511 19 50; www.kokob.be; Rue des Grands Carmes 10; menus per person from €20; h6-11pm Mon-Thu, noon-3pm & 6-11pm Fri-Sun; jAnnessens, Bourse) A warmly lit Ethiopian bar/restaurant/cultural centre at the bottom of Rue des Grands Carmes, where dishes are best shared and eaten from and with pancake-like injera – it’s a place to visit in a group rather than on your own.

o Main Street HotelGUESTHOUSE€€€ (map Google map; %057 46 96 33; www.mainstreet-hotel.be; Rijselstraat 136; d incl breakfast from €180; W) Jumbling eccentricity with historical twists and luxurious comfort, this is a one-off that oozes character. The smallest room is designed like a mad professor’s experiment. The breakfast room has a Tiffany glass ceiling. 5Eating Henk BakeryBAKERY€ (map Google map; %057 20 14 17; Sint-Jacobsstraat 2; breads & pastries from €2.50; h6.45am-6pm Tue-Fri, 5.45am-7pm Sat, 5.45am-4pm Sun) Fresh bread, pastries, croques and fancy patisserie goods to take away. Try the amazing and filling broodpudding (bread pudding) for just €0.40.

Fish & ChipsFASHION & ACCESSORIES (map Google map; www.fishandchips.be; Kammenstraat 18-22; h10am-6.30pm Mon-Sat, noon-6pm Sun) An ever-popular streetwear purveyor with humour-filled displays amid bare-concrete pillars. In-store DJs enliven proceedings on Saturday afternoons. VersoFASHION & ACCESSORIES (map Google map; %03-226 92 92; www.verso.com; Lange Gasthuisstraat 11; h10am-6pm Mon-Sat) In an old bank building with a gorgeous stained-glass ceiling, Verso offers designer wares, perfume and accessories. Attached is a dark and moody cocktail café, open until 6.30pm (8pm on Saturday). DON’T MISS FASHION DISTRICT Antwerp may seem far more sartorially laid-back than fashion heavyweights Paris or Milan, but it punches above its weight.


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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas by Mary Herczog, Jordan S. Simon

Berlin Wall, Bob Geldof, Boeing 747, Carl Icahn, glass ceiling, haute couture, haute cuisine, Maui Hawaii, Murano, Venice glass, Saturday Night Live, young professional

The Caesars Palace entrance is a riot of gilt bas-relief, carved and mirrored ceilings, friezes, and reclining marble nudes alongside black marble floors and crystal chandeliers. After more than 30 years, it’s still Vegas glitz at its best. But for sheer camp, nothing exceeds the excess of Excalibur, with its mock medieval stained-glass ceiling, glowing dragons, brightly colored heraldic flags, suits of armor on wooden horses, and amazing turreted chandeliers. The majestic 70-foot rotunda dome in the Venetian’s lobby glistens with 24K gold leaf and a montage of 21 Renaissance paintings. The tile floors are the real thing, scavenged from condemned palazzi.

Main Street Station culls antiques and artifacts from around the globe: ornate doors, transom, and stained-glass windows from actress Lillian Russell’s Victorian mansion; bronze doors from London’s turn-of-the-century Kuwait Royal Bank; carved oak fireplace and sideboard from Scotland’s Prestwick Castle; fluted cast-iron columns from the Royal Army barracks at Windsor Castle; an Art Nouveau chandelier from the Figaro Opera House in Paris; even the Schlitz Milwaukee mansion’s mahoganyand-walnut elevator serving as a phone booth. Artworks by Picasso and Rauschenberg are scattered throughout Bellagio’s restaurants, but the cultural coup is Dale Chihuly’s immense glass ceiling installation, “Fiori di Como,” which resembles, depending on your point of view, a profusion of glass jellyfish, a floral explosion, or someone’s 1960s LSD nightmare. The Rio is known for lavishly mounted traveling exhibits ranging from Tsarist treasures to Titanic artifacts, but amid the property’s jazzy razzmatazz, it’s easy to overlook a splendid permanent collection of contemporary art, most on display in the entrance corridor and lobby of the Samba Theatre: works by Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Nan Goldin.


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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, anti-communist, behavioural economics, belling the cat, British Empire, clean water, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, correlation coefficient, correlation does not imply causation, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Defenestration of Prague, desegregation, disinformation, Dutch auction, epigenetics, Exxon Valdez, George Akerlof, germ theory of disease, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, Hobbesian trap, income inequality, invention of agriculture, invisible hand, Joan Didion, language acquisition, long peace, meta-analysis, More Guns, Less Crime, Murray Gell-Mann, mutually assured destruction, Norman Mailer, Oklahoma City bombing, PalmPilot, Peter Singer: altruism, phenotype, plutocrats, Potemkin village, prisoner's dilemma, profit motive, public intellectual, QWERTY keyboard, Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, Robert Bork, Rodney Brooks, Saturday Night Live, Skinner box, social intelligence, speech recognition, Stanford prison experiment, stem cell, Steven Pinker, tacit knowledge, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the new new thing, theory of mind, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, Timothy McVeigh, twin studies, Tyler Cowen, ultimatum game, urban renewal, War on Poverty, women in the workforce, Yogi Berra, zero-sum game

To take two of the simplest and most obvious indicators: women still earn no more than 72 cents for every dollar that men earn, and we are nowhere near equality in numbers at the very top of decision making in business, government, or the professions.56 Like Friedan, many people believe that the gender gap in wages and a “glass ceiling” that keeps women from rising to the uppermost levels of power are the two main injustices facing women in the West today. In his 1999 State of the Union address, Bill Clinton said, “We can be proud of this progress, but 75 cents on the dollar is still only three-quarters of the way there, and Americans can’t be satisfied until we’re all the way there.” The gender gap and the glass ceiling have inspired lawsuits against companies that have too few women in the top positions, pressure on the government to regulate all salaries so men and women are paid according to the “comparable worth” of their jobs, and aggressive measures to change girls’ attitudes to the professions, such as the annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day.

Anyone bringing it up is certain to be accused of “wanting to keep women in their place” or “justifying the status quo.” This makes about as much sense as saying that a scientist who studies why women live longer than men “wants old men to die.” And far from being a ploy by self-serving men, analyses exposing the flaws of the glass-ceiling theory have largely come from women, including Hausman, Gottfredson, Judith Kleinfeld, Karen Lehrman, Cathy Young, and Camilla Benbow, the economists Jennifer Roback, Felice Schwartz, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, and Christine Stolba, the legal scholar Jennifer Braceras, and, more guardedly, the economist Claudia Goldin and the legal scholar Susan Estrich.63 I believe these writers have given us a better understanding of the gender gap than the standard one, for a number of reasons.

Foucault, Michel Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth Frank, Robert Franklin, Benjamin Frazer, James George Freedman, Jonathan Freeman, Derek free-rider problem free will French Revolution frequency-dependent selection Freud, Sigmund Friedan, Betty Friedman, Milton Furchtgott-Roth, Diana Gabriel, Peter Gage, Phineas Galbraith, John Kenneth Galileo Galilei Galton, Francis game theory Gardner, Howard Garfunkel, Art Gauguin, Paul Gazzaniga, Michael Geary, David Geertz, Clifford Gell-Mann, Murray Gelman, Susan gender, see sex differences gender feminism gender gap generative grammar genes: antisocial acts and autism and brain and crime and emergenic traits and intelligence and language and mental illness and Neel and personality and “selfish” violence and see also behavioral genetics genetically modified foods genetic variation genius genome, human in denials of human nature evolution and human complexity and number of genes in variability in germ theory of disease Gestalt Ghiglieri, Michael Ghost in the Machine determinism and genetics and neural plasticity and neuroscience and radical science defense of responsibility and right-wing support of Gibran, Kahlil Gigerenzer, Gerd Gilbert, William Gilligan, Carol Gilmore, Gary Gingrich, Newt Gintis, Herbert glass ceiling Glendon, Mary Ann Glover, Jonathan Godfather, The Godwin, William Goffman, Erving Goldberg, Tiffany F. Goldblum, Jeff Golden Rule Goldin, Claudia Golding, William Goldman, Emma Good Morning America Gopnik, Adam gorillas Gorky, Maxim Gottfredson, Linda Gottschall, Jonathan Gould, Stephen Jay Gowaty, Patricia Graglia, F.


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Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland by Ben Coates

Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, bike sharing, British Empire, centre right, clean water, colonial rule, company town, drug harm reduction, Easter island, failed state, financial innovation, glass ceiling, invention of the printing press, joint-stock company, Kickstarter, megacity, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, short selling, spice trade, starchitect, trade route, urban sprawl, work culture

When future President John Adams later visited the Netherlands to raise funds for the American Revolution, he was struck by the influence Dutch culture had had on his home country. ‘One nation is a copy of the other,’ he said. The Gallery of Honour At the Rijksmuseum, I ducked back through the overseas gallery and into another room leading off it, a smaller square space with charcoal-coloured walls and an arched glass ceiling. There was a long cushioned bench in the centre and a security guard was shaking awake a young man who had fallen asleep stretched along it, using his own battered skateboard shoes as a pillow. The room was largely empty, but a group of perhaps half a dozen people were clustered against one wall, examining closely a painting I recognised from posters and postcards.

Empire building and scientific discovery were two sides of the same coin, both aimed at stretching the boundaries of the known world. Rembrandt’s ‘Spectacular Failure’ If the Rijksmuseum was a cathedral, its undisputed altar was at the rear of the Gallery of Honour. In a large annexe with a high glass ceiling sat the star attraction around which the whole museum was said to have been designed: Rembrandt’s The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, better known by its nickname, ‘The Night Watch’. Walking through the long gallery towards the painting and seeing it suspended amid golden statues and marble pillars, I almost felt I should drop to my knees and pray.


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Cyprus - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Constantine Buhayer

banking crisis, British Empire, business climate, centre right, COVID-19, financial independence, glass ceiling, Google Earth, haute cuisine, Kickstarter, lockdown, low cost airline, offshore financial centre, open economy, Skype, women in the workforce, young professional

When applying for a job, a person can be asked who their family is. The second-best answer might include that one’s father or mother is from a particular village if it coincides with that of the potential employer. The third layer is being from Cyprus; an international Cypriot company in Athens had an unspoken glass ceiling for mainland Greeks. There is also a Cypriot look, or rather a range of physical characteristics that identify people from specific parts of the island. As regards the two main ethnic communities, it is often difficult to distinguish between them. According to studies, the high percentage of thalassaemia (an inherited blood disorder) across the Cypriot population suggests “close contacts between the two Cypriot communities during many centuries.”


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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner

AOL-Time Warner, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, book scanning, Colossal Cave Adventure, Columbine, corporate governance, Free Software Foundation, game design, glass ceiling, Hacker Ethic, informal economy, Marc Andreessen, market design, Marshall McLuhan, Neal Stephenson, Saturday Night Live, side project, Silicon Valley, SimCity, slashdot, Snow Crash, software patent, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, X Prize

When the elevator doors finally opened into the penthouse, it felt as though Romero was standing on top of the moon. The two-story, 22,500-square-foot loft seemed to spill into the stars. The space was bare but surrounded by a wraparound window view of the city and a seemingly endless sixty-foot arched glass ceiling. Anywhere Romero spun, he saw the kaleidoscopic twinkle of lights–evening lights from below, the celestial bodies up high. It was raw, waiting to be designed. Romero imagined a room full of pillows, a Vegas room with slot machines, a “Break Shit” room where you could just go around destroying things!

The owners approved the plan to hire up a staff and release a comic book for each of the company’s games as, essentially, free public relations. When Eidos got wind of the plan, however, they immediately shut it down. “You guys are supposed to be making games,” they said. “Why should we pay you to make comics?” Even the glass ceiling they toiled beneath became a problem, specifically, a nightmare of light. Next to vampires, no one hates the light as much as gamers; there’s nothing worse than a big, bad glare blinding down on a computer screen. Nobody could work. The architects were immediately called in to install stylish spoilers on top of the cubicles.


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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett

affirmative action, Anthropocene, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, California gold rush, classic study, cognitive load, delayed gratification, demographic transition, Easter island, eurozone crisis, George Santayana, glass ceiling, Howard Rheingold, invention of agriculture, invention of writing, Kevin Kelly, labour mobility, land tenure, long peace, Milgram experiment, mirror neurons, Oklahoma City bombing, out of africa, phenotype, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, shared worldview, Silicon Valley, social intelligence, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, the strength of weak ties, Timothy McVeigh, World Values Survey

The chapter after that, “Anonymous Humans,” spells out how humans employ the same approach: our species is attuned to markers that reflect what each society finds acceptable, including behaviors so subtle they may only be noticed subliminally. By this means people can connect with strangers in what I call an anonymous society, thereby breaking the glass ceiling in the size societies can achieve. The three chapters included in Section III, “Hunter-Gatherers Until Recent Times,” ask what the societies of our species were like before the advent of agriculture. I cover people who existed as hunter-gatherers up to recent times, ranging from those who lived nomadically in small, spread-out groups, called bands, and others who settled down for much or all of the year.

This may make geladas seem dim-witted, yet an important lesson emerges. Animals reliant on mutual recognition are compelled to be at least minimally aware of everyone in their society, and that renders sociality at a massive scope prohibitive.26 Our own kind, Homo sapiens, has obliterated the glass ceiling of those other species. No matter what our intelligence, humans would never have been as successful as we are today without going large. Before turning to humans, however, we continue our exploration of nature with another high point in social evolution, the insect societies. Not only do these arthropods include the vast majority of the society-dwelling organisms, but among their colonies are some of a scale and complexity that are indeed immense, and which I believe shed light our own societies.

In the societies of our prehuman ancestors, as in those of most other mammals, the members had to recognize each other individually to function as a group. The resulting constraint on memory put an upper limit of roughly 200 on the size of societies in most animals. At some point in our evolution, probably before the origins of Homo sapiens, humans broke this glass ceiling by forming anonymous societies. Such societies, found in humans and a few other animals—notably ants and most other social insects—can potentially attain vast sizes because the members no longer must remember each other personally. Instead, they rely on identifying markers to accept both individuals they know and strangers who fit their expectations.


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The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, American Legislative Exchange Council, Anthropocene, antiwork, basic income, biodiversity loss, Bretton Woods, clean water, collective bargaining, commoditize, crony capitalism, do what you love, feminist movement, follow your passion, food desert, Food sovereignty, glass ceiling, global supply chain, global value chain, helicopter parent, hiring and firing, income inequality, Khan Academy, late capitalism, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, means of production, microapartment, performance metric, post-Fordism, post-work, profit motive, rent-seeking, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, school vouchers, shareholder value, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Slavoj Žižek, structural adjustment programs, Susan Wojcicki, TED Talk, Tim Cook: Apple, urban renewal, women in the workforce, working poor, zero-sum game

Framing the issue as “work-life balance”—as if the two were diametrically opposed—practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?12 Women’s decisions to give up on their ambitions as adults are often the result of learned dispositions and habits acquired during childhood. But despite this socialization and its long-term effects, Sandberg doesn’t really believe in glass ceilings or see the need for affirmative action. She thinks the main force holding women back—at least educated women—is their own hang-ups and fears. Women don’t need favors, they just need to believe in themselves. “Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face … Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment.”13 Deborah Gruenfeld calls Sandberg a post-feminist—a woman who believes that “when you blame someone else for keeping you back, you are accepting your powerlessness.”14 So how should women take power and the corner office?


Lonely Planet Pocket Bruges & Brussels by Lonely Planet, Helena Smith

Easter island, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, non-fiction novel, Skype

Amongst other Belgian artists explored in less depth, you may want to pause over the little blue creatures created by Peyo: the Smurfs. Horta’s building Designed as a department stone in 1906, the lovely building features a swirling tiled floor, slim metal pillars, girders and grills and light filtered through a glass ceiling. As you enter, a model of Tintin’s red rocket gleams against the pale stone; to the right is a small exhibition about the construction, decline and restoration of the building. Top Tips › Don’t forget to pick up the English notes at the ticket desk or you’ll be all at sea. › You don’t have to pay an entrance fee to enjoy the central hallway or to drink a coffee (€2.20) at the attached cafe. › Temporary exhibitions on the top floor show international comic-strip art. › Don’t miss the shop, which steers clear of merchandise and focuses on books, including Sarkozik – a satire on the French ex-president, plus the Smurfs, Tintin, fantasy and manga. › Should you want more reading matter – albeit in French – there’s a comic-book library next door.


Pocket Bruges & Brussels Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Easter island, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Skype

Among other Belgian artists explored in less depth, you may want to pause over the little blue creatures created by Peyo: the Smurfs. Horta’s building Designed as a department store in 1906, the lovely building features a swirling tiled floor, slim metal pillars, girders and grills and light filtered through a glass ceiling. As you enter, a model of Tintin’s red rocket gleams against the pale stone; to the right is a small exhibition about the construction, decline and restoration of the building. 1Top Sights Grand PlaceC6 Centre Belge de la Bande DessinéeE3 1Sights 1Musée du Costume et de la DentelleC6 2Manneken PisB7 3Jeanneke PisC5 4Musée du Cacao et du ChocolatB6 5Underpant MuseumC7 6Fondation Jacques BrelC7 7Musée de la BrasserieC6 8Brussels City MuseumC6 9Galeries St-HubertD5 10Rue des BouchersC5 11BourseB5 12Bruxella1238B5 13Église St-NicolasB5 5Eating 14ArcadiD5 15Cremerie De LinkebeekA4 16HenriA3 17L'OgenblikC5 18Le Cercle des VoyageursB7 19DandoyB5 20Brasserie de la Roue d'OrC6 21KokobA7 22Sea GrillD4 23La Maison du CygneC6 24Osteria a l'OmbraC6 6Drinking 25Goupil le FolC7 26Le CirioB5 27FalstaffB5 28À la Mort SubiteD5 29À la BécasseB5 30Au SoleilA7 31BarBetonA4 32La Fleur en Papier DoréB8 33Fontainas BarA7 34WalvisA3 35Le CercueilC6 36Madame MoustacheA3 37La VilaineB4 38Métropole CaféC3 39A l'Image de Nostre-DameC5 40CelticaB5 3Entertainment 41Music VillageB6 42Théâtre Royal de TooneC5 43Cinéma GaleriesC5 44L'ArchiducA4 45Art BaseE3 46Actor's StudioC5 47ABA6 48Théâtre du VaudevilleC6 49Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie/Koninklijke MuntschouwburgC4 50Théâtre NationalD1 51Koninklijke Vlaamse SchouwburgB1 7Shopping 52Boutique TintinC6 53CatherineB6 54Sterling BooksD4 55De BiertempelC5 56NeuhausD5 57Planète ChocolatB6 58City 2E1 59Micro MarchéA1 60Passage du NordC3 UnderstandMural-Spotting Over 40 comic-strip murals currently enliven alleys and thoroughfares throughout the old city centre, with more added year after year.


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When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson

affirmative action, business cycle, citizen journalism, classic study, collective bargaining, conceptual framework, declining real wages, deindustrialization, deliberate practice, desegregation, Donald Trump, edge city, ending welfare as we know it, fixed income, full employment, George Gilder, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gunnar Myrdal, income inequality, informal economy, jobless men, labor-force participation, longitudinal study, low skilled workers, low-wage service sector, manufacturing employment, mass immigration, new economy, New Urbanism, pink-collar, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, school choice, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Chicago School, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban renewal, War on Poverty, work culture , working poor, working-age population, Works Progress Administration

Tide VII also forbids employment discrimination by labor unions and employment agencies of any size, and by the executive branch of the federal government”(Bloch [1994], pp. 48–49) 40 However, if the more advantaged members of minority groups: Fiskin (1983). 41 Thus, policies of affirmative action: Fiskin (1983), Loury (1984), and Loury (1995). 42 quotation from William L. Taylor: Taylor (1986), p. 1714. 43 as long as minorities are underrepresented in higher-paying … positions: A recent report revealed that 95 percent of the senior management positions (vice president and above) are held by white men, who constitute only 29 percent of the workforce. Glass Ceiling Commission (1995). 44 some liberals have argued for a shift from an affirmative action based on race: See, for example, Kahlenberg (1995). 45 The major distinguishing characteristic … based on need: Fishkin (1983) has related this type of affirmative action to the principle of equality of life chances.

Wealth and Poverty. New York: Basic Books. Gittleman, Maury B., and David R. Howell. 1993. “Job Quality and Labor Market Segmentation in the 1980s: A New Perspective on the Effects of Employment Restructuring by Race and Gender.” Working paper no. 82, Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, March. Glass Ceiling Commission. 1995. “Good for Business: Making Full Use of the Nation’s Human Capital.” U.S. Department of Labor, March. Greenberg, Mark. 1993. Beyond Stereotypes: What State AFDC Studies on Length of Stay Tell Us About Welfare as a “Way of Life.” Center for Law and Social Policy. Greenstein, Robert. 1991.


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America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom by Meghan McCain, Michael Black

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, An Inconvenient Truth, carbon footprint, Columbine, fear of failure, feminist movement, gentrification, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, income inequality, independent contractor, obamacare, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Timothy McVeigh, Tony Hsieh, too big to fail, white picket fence

While I dislike President Clinton, and am actually one of those people who still think it was deplorable that he got an intern to blow him in the West Wing during business hours, I am a big fan of Hillary’s. I disagree with many, many of her policies but have a respect for the fact that she pushed through many doors and shattered many glass ceilings for women in politics. I love women who don’t put up with shit, and Hillary clearly doesn’t. Michael seems to have very little problem with the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, at least in terms of the presidency. I’m not a prude or a hypocrite. I have been very, very honest about the kind of lifestyle I lead, which in Republican circles, is actually considered by some to be controversial.

Yet the same beauty standards are applied to women in politics, and the sterotypes are more extreme. One gets to be Sarah Palin, the gorgeous, stupid airhead. Or Hillary Clinton, the aging, mercenary bitch. I do not think nor believe those should be the only options for women in politics. I want to do everything; I want to help break glass ceilings that have already started cracking before me. I want to fight for what I believe in, use my voice, speak out, help make change, and be allowed to wear clothes that make me feel like a sexy woman. Over our first drink of the day, I spill to Michael and Stephie. I spill all of the failures, the paranoias and fears I think most people have on some level or another.


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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

"World Economic Forum" Davos, agricultural Revolution, An Inconvenient Truth, Anthropocene, Asilomar, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, back-to-the-land, biofilm, borderless world, Buckminster Fuller, business process, carbon credits, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, clean water, Community Supported Agriculture, conceptual framework, Danny Hillis, dark matter, decarbonisation, demographic dividend, demographic transition, digital divide, Easter island, Elon Musk, Exxon Valdez, failed state, Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Hans Rosling, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, Hernando de Soto, high-speed rail, informal economy, interchangeable parts, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of agriculture, invention of the steam engine, Jane Jacobs, jimmy wales, Kevin Kelly, Kibera, land tenure, lateral thinking, Lewis Mumford, low earth orbit, M-Pesa, Marshall McLuhan, megacity, megaproject, microbiome, military-industrial complex, New Urbanism, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, out of africa, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Calthorpe, precautionary principle, Recombinant DNA, rewilding, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, smart grid, stem cell, Stewart Brand, synthetic biology, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Thomas Malthus, Tragedy of the Commons, University of East Anglia, uranium enrichment, urban renewal, We are as Gods, wealth creators, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, William Langewiesche, working-age population, Y2K

Landrace farmers are well aware of the problem of “inbreeding depression” (as they say, the maize “gets tired”—se cansa), so they routinely blend in other varieties, and also vagrant genes on the pollen are always blowing from cornfield to cornfield. Israeli plant scientist Jonathan Gressel describes the customary situation in Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity (2007):There has been gene flow from commercial varieties of crops to/from landraces growing nearby, only to the betterment, at times, of one party or the other. The farmer preserves the landrace, morphologically, tastewise, but actually (inadvertently) selects for individuals that have also picked up genes for disease or stress tolerance, or higher yields.

GM as abbreviation for gene transfer as intellectual property issue and mammoths and medicine and opposition to organic farming and pest control and plant toxicity and precautionary principle and precision of recombinant DNA research and religion and second generation of stories related to synthetic biology and violence and Genetic Glass Ceilings (Gressel) genetic inertia genetic use restriction technology (GURT) gene transfer genome, human geoengineering asteroid deflection and biochar and carbon-fixing algae and cloud machines and criticisms of governance and ocean water piping and space mirrors and stratospheric sulfates and see also ecosystem engineering geothermal energy Germany genetic engineering and Nazism and subscription farms and Gilman, Nils Gleick, Peter “Global Baby Bust, The” (Longman) Global Business Network/Monitor (GBN) global dimming Global Earth Observation System of Systems Global Fund for Women globalization Global Justice Ecology Project Global Metagenomics Initiative Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Global Research Technologies Global Soil Map glyphosate (Roundup) Gofman, John Gold, Lois golden rice Goldsmith, Edward Gonsalves, Dennis Gore, Albert Gosliner, Terry Gottfried, David Gould, Stephen Jay Graham, Paul Grameen Bank Grameenphone Great Britain environmental movement and genetic engineering and nuclear power and GreenFacts.org greenhouse gases “Green Manhattan” (Owen) Green Party Greenpeace Green Phoenix (Allen) Green Revolution Gressel, Jonathan Griffith, Saul Growing Up Urban (UN) “Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities” (West et al.)


Decoding Organization: Bletchley Park, Codebreaking and Organization Studies by Christopher Grey

Bletchley Park, call centre, classic study, computer age, glass ceiling, index card, iterative process, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, military-industrial complex, old-boy network, post-war consensus, seminal paper, work culture

(Hill, 2004: 79) There were examples of women being promoted from humdrum roles: Miss White . . . who originally served as a secretary to the Naval Section head . . . was ‘found to have the makings of a quite passable’ cryptanalyst, high praise in these circles30, and so she moved into that capacity. (Ratcliff, 2006: 81) 158 s p l i n t e r s o f c u l t u r e a t b l e t c h l e y p a r k However, it is very hard to find such examples; more common were experiences such as the way that Despite their acknowledged worth, Wrens still encountered a ‘glass ceiling’ obstructing their promotion and imposing on them, almost without exception, male bosses . . . [a] woman’s role was typically seen as servicing the needs of other, more senior staff . . . [one] Wren wryly comments: ‘we could make tea or coffee and handed it out to the elite, the linguists’. (Hill, 2004: 78) Within this context, the often-mentioned meritocracy of working methods (e.g.

., 48, 56, 62–63, 68, 81, 91 Vincent, Professor Eric 199–200 W/T Co-ordination section 200 WAAF 59 Wall, Geoffrey, 230 War Office (WO) 54 Waterman, R. 165 Watkins, Gwen 195 Watson, Tony 2, 250 Wavendon out station 151 weather ciphers, breaking of 224–225 Weber, Max 12, 231, 245 Weick, K. 17, 100, 261 Welchman, Gordon 29, 44, 74, 182, 184–185, 200, 204 on Alan Bradshaw 73 appeal to Churchill 91 breaking of security rules 127 dispute with MI8 61–62 establishment of organizational infrastructure 83–85, 98, 100, 102, 237, 257 liaison with BTMC 233 on morale 190–191 recruitment of 133, 181 and recruitment 179, 185 on Traffic Analysis 82 ‘Wicked Uncles’ letter 91–93, 162 Whipp, R. 12 Whitehall 54 Wilson, Angus 164 322 i n d e x Winterbotham, Group Captain Frederick 103, 129–130, 203 Wireless Telegraphy Intelligence (WTI), and cryptography 82–83 see also Traffic Analysis women 55 division of labour and 3 promotion of 157–158 recruitment of 133–135 roles of 156–159 see also Wrens Women’s Welfare Committee 160, 201 World War II, cultural effects 30–31 Wrens 135, 147–148 accommodation and cultural experience 150–151 glass ceiling 158 management of 188 work roles 157, 158 see also WRNS Wright Mills, Charles 7 WRNS culture 150–151 outstations, number of staff 174 see also Wrens Wylie, Shaun 185, 225 Y Board 54, 60–61, 62, 90 Y stations 36, 80–81, 135, 194–195, 215 intercept staff 144 monotony in 192 Y sub-committee 48 ‘Y’ wars 60, 88 ZTC Ryland 7–8


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How the World Works by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman, David Barsamian

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business climate, capital controls, clean water, corporate governance, deindustrialization, disinformation, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, glass ceiling, heat death of the universe, Howard Zinn, income inequality, interchangeable parts, Isaac Newton, joint-stock company, land reform, liberation theology, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, offshore financial centre, plutocrats, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, single-payer health, strikebreaker, Telecommunications Act of 1996, transfer pricing, union organizing, War on Poverty, working poor

You say that class transcends race, essentially. It certainly does. For example, the United States could become a color-free society. It’s possible. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s perfectly possible that it would happen, and it would hardly change the political economy at all—just as women could pass through the “glass ceiling” and that wouldn’t change the political economy at all. That’s one of the reasons why you commonly find the business sector reasonably willing to support efforts to overcome racism and sexism. It doesn’t matter that much for them. You lose a little white-male privilege in the executive suite, but that’s not all that important as long as the basic institutions of power and domination survive intact.

See also Israel American Jews in antisemitism in Israel occupation of Palestinians expelled from Rabin in Gehlen, Reinhard Gehlen, Richard General Electric General Motors in conspiracy factories moved to East Germany foreign investments by in Poland genocide Germany corporations based in demonstrations in East Germany Holocaust in industrial policy in labor costs in labor in POWs in public control possible in racism in unemployment in as world power Ghandi, Indira Gingrich, Newt conference attended by globalization and Lockheed used as example by military budget and Gitlin, Todd “glass ceiling,” globalization conspiracy theories about of corporate mercantilism in early 20th century economic resistance to World Economic Forum GNP of US “God-and-country” rally Godoy, Julio Golan Heights Golden, Tim Golden Triangle Goldwater, Barry good examples, threat of Goodland, Robert Good Neighbor policy “Good Samaritan” robbery Gore-Perot NAFTA debate government corporate welfare of as modifiable need to use at this point seen as enemy, in US “grace, paradox of,” Grand Area grassroots propaganda Greece intervention after WWII Serb conflict and Green Party Greider, William Grenada drug trafficking in US aid to US invasion of Grossman, Richard group vs. individual advantage Guaraní Guatemala CIA in CIA memorandum (1952) example made of Jennifer Harbury case in La Epoca destruction military coup in 1944 revolution peace treaty (December, 1996) right-wing view of atrocities in torture and slaughter in Guinea (former) Gulf crisis Iraqi issues with Kuwait “linkage,” rejection of diplomacy in UN response to Iraq US opposition to “linkage” in Gulf War gun control gun culture Gush Katif Gusmao, Xanana Gypsies Ha’aretz Haddad, Sa’ad Haganah Haiti aftermath of coup in Aristide’s election in baseball production in Bush administration policies toward civil society in Clinton administration policies toward Clinton backing down on democratic institutions in Disney exploitation in drug trafficking in embargo and US trade with invasion by US nonviolence and poverty in prospects for refugees from, US policy toward softball production in US hostility to wages in Hamas Hamilton, Alexander Harbury, Jennifer Harding, Tonya hard times, myth of Harlem Harper’s Harvard Business School Harvard Medical School Harvard University Hasanfus, Eugene Havel, Vaclav health class as determinant of in Kerala US vs.


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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

affirmative action, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Charles Lindbergh, cognitive dissonance, desegregation, en.wikipedia.org, European colonialism, glass ceiling, Gunnar Myrdal, low earth orbit, Mahatma Gandhi, military-industrial complex, Neil Armstrong, New Journalism, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, public intellectual, RAND corporation, Rosa Parks, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, women in the workforce, éminence grise

Even seemingly small barriers conspired to keep larger numbers of women from advancing: until 1967, the Langley Field golf course—as in other workplaces, a prime location for networking—restricted women to playing during the workday, rather than allowing them to golf alongside men after work. In 1979, Mary Jackson was fifty-eight years old and coming to the conclusion that she had probably hit the glass ceiling. It would have been easy for her to reap the benefits of seniority, reducing her workload and taking a long coast toward retirement. Even if the next promotion eluded her, she still had the prestige of being an engineer and the satisfaction of knowing how hard she had worked to arrive at this point.

Jackson, Federal Women’s Program Coordinator,” LHA, October 1979. 255 This was a contrast with Goddard: Dunnigan, “Two Women Chart Way for Astronauts.” 255 “to place a woman in at least one:” Edgar Cortright to Grove Webster, “NASA Plans to Attract More Qualified Women to Government Positions,” June 11, 1971, NARA Phil. 255 restricted women to playing during the workday: Sharon H. Stack, personal interview, April 22, 2014. 255 she had probably hit the glass ceiling: Champine interview. 256 instrumental in bringing the separate: Mary Winston Jackson Obituary program, February 17, 2005, in author’s possession. 256 equal opportunity employment counselor: “Meet Your EEO Counselors: Mary Jackson,” Langley Researcher, June 23, 1972. 256 Langley’s Federal Women’s Program Advisory Committee: “Advisory Committee,” Langley Researcher, May 11, 1973. 257 “fantasy that men were uniquely gifted”: Fries, “The History of Women in NASA.” 258 “everybody’s daddy had a plane”: Gloria Champine, personal interview, July 23, 2014. 258 the “crazy things”: Gloria Champine, “XB-15: First of the Big Bombers of World War II,” NASA History website, http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/XB-15.


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Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect by David Goodhart

active measures, Airbnb, Albert Einstein, assortative mating, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, big-box store, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Branko Milanovic, Brexit referendum, British Empire, call centre, Cass Sunstein, central bank independence, centre right, computer age, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, data science, David Attenborough, David Brooks, deglobalization, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, desegregation, deskilling, different worldview, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, emotional labour, Etonian, fail fast, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Flynn Effect, Frederick Winslow Taylor, future of work, gender pay gap, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Great Leap Forward, illegal immigration, income inequality, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, job automation, job satisfaction, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, labour market flexibility, lockdown, longitudinal study, low skilled workers, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, meritocracy, new economy, Nicholas Carr, oil shock, pattern recognition, Peter Thiel, pink-collar, post-industrial society, post-materialism, postindustrial economy, precariat, reshoring, Richard Florida, robotic process automation, scientific management, Scientific racism, Skype, social distancing, social intelligence, spinning jenny, Steven Pinker, superintelligent machines, TED Talk, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Thorstein Veblen, twin studies, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, universal basic income, upwardly mobile, wages for housework, winner-take-all economy, women in the workforce, young professional

Meanwhile, Heart jobs in social care for the elderly, early-years education, and child care continue to be undervalued and often underpaid. Most nursery workers earn around £17,000 a year and a baby-sitter, even in London, is paid about £6 an hour per child. Today’s women’s equality movement has focused primarily on breaking glass ceilings and competing equally with men in the world of professional careers. It has been more ambivalent about trying to raise the status of caring and nurturing occupations, which are associated with traditionally female roles. Women now have many more opportunities than in the 1950s or 1960s and fewer are volunteering for caring roles.

Germany needs to double its social care workforce in the next twenty years yet is already facing recruitment difficulties.33 It is a similar story in most rich countries. Women and Care There is one benign reason for the crisis of recruitment in care jobs, especially nursing: women have many more career options today than they did fifty years ago and, on average, are better educated. Nurse recruitment has undoubtedly suffered from the breaking of glass ceilings. In the decades after the Second World War, some of the most capable women in rich countries were working as ward sisters or primary school heads. Their daughters are partners in city law firms, management consultants, or, indeed, medical consultants. Society as a whole has benefited from this greater freedom for women, but many parts of the care economy, including teaching, have suffered.


Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking by Michael Bhaskar

"Margaret Hamilton" Apollo, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, AI winter, Albert Einstein, algorithmic trading, AlphaGo, Anthropocene, artificial general intelligence, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, backpropagation, barriers to entry, basic income, behavioural economics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Big Tech, Bletchley Park, blockchain, Boeing 747, brain emulation, Brexit referendum, call centre, carbon tax, charter city, citizen journalism, Claude Shannon: information theory, Clayton Christensen, clean tech, clean water, cognitive load, Columbian Exchange, coronavirus, cosmic microwave background, COVID-19, creative destruction, CRISPR, crony capitalism, cyber-physical system, dark matter, David Graeber, deep learning, DeepMind, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, Demis Hassabis, demographic dividend, Deng Xiaoping, deplatforming, discovery of penicillin, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, Easter island, Edward Jenner, Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, endogenous growth, energy security, energy transition, epigenetics, Eratosthenes, Ernest Rutherford, Eroom's law, fail fast, false flag, Fellow of the Royal Society, flying shuttle, Ford Model T, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, general purpose technology, germ theory of disease, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Goodhart's law, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, GPT-3, Haber-Bosch Process, hedonic treadmill, Herman Kahn, Higgs boson, hive mind, hype cycle, Hyperloop, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, Innovator's Dilemma, intangible asset, interchangeable parts, Internet of things, invention of agriculture, invention of the printing press, invention of the steam engine, invention of the telegraph, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, ITER tokamak, James Watt: steam engine, James Webb Space Telescope, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, job automation, Johannes Kepler, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Arrow, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, Large Hadron Collider, liberation theology, lockdown, lone genius, loss aversion, Louis Pasteur, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, megacity, megastructure, Menlo Park, Minecraft, minimum viable product, mittelstand, Modern Monetary Theory, Mont Pelerin Society, Murray Gell-Mann, Mustafa Suleyman, natural language processing, Neal Stephenson, nuclear winter, nudge unit, oil shale / tar sands, open economy, OpenAI, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, PageRank, patent troll, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, post scarcity, post-truth, precautionary principle, public intellectual, publish or perish, purchasing power parity, quantum entanglement, Ray Kurzweil, remote working, rent-seeking, Republic of Letters, Richard Feynman, Robert Gordon, Robert Solow, secular stagnation, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Simon Kuznets, skunkworks, Slavoj Žižek, sovereign wealth fund, spinning jenny, statistical model, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Stuart Kauffman, synthetic biology, techlash, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, TikTok, total factor productivity, transcontinental railway, Two Sigma, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, universal basic income, uranium enrichment, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, When a measure becomes a target, X Prize, Y Combinator

At the time they were working, transport generally was in the midst of a revolution that saw speeds accelerating and radical new forms of movement rolled out across the world stage. For about 150 years everything continued to accelerate as distances seemed to shrink. But then the process began to stutter. We hit a glass ceiling of transportation. * For most of human history, going anywhere had been tiring, uncomfortable, dangerous and slow. Over the centuries roads were not noticeably better than in Roman times. Ships became quicker and cheaper, but developments in maritime technology were incremental. Then came change.

Education levels have been generally increasing, but much faster for girls.29 Worldwide, the majority of graduates are now women.30 Fertility rates have fallen rapidly almost everywhere, converging towards two children per couple, freeing women from a cycle of pregnancy and child rearing.31 Previously locked doors, forbidden paths and glass ceilings have been unlocked, forged and smashed. The picture is not perfect, of course. Fields from economics to coding are still widely felt to be exclusionary to women. While the position of women has improved, even in developed economies only a third of researchers are women.32 Just under 6 per cent of Nobel laureates are women at the time of writing – about the same number that are associated with Cornell or Humboldt universities.


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The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future by Orly Lobel

2021 United States Capitol attack, 23andMe, Ada Lovelace, affirmative action, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, Amazon Mechanical Turk, augmented reality, barriers to entry, basic income, Big Tech, bioinformatics, Black Lives Matter, Boston Dynamics, Charles Babbage, choice architecture, computer vision, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, contact tracing, coronavirus, corporate social responsibility, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, data science, David Attenborough, David Heinemeier Hansson, deep learning, deepfake, digital divide, digital map, Elon Musk, emotional labour, equal pay for equal work, feminist movement, Filter Bubble, game design, gender pay gap, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Google Chrome, Grace Hopper, income inequality, index fund, information asymmetry, Internet of things, invisible hand, it's over 9,000, iterative process, job automation, Lao Tzu, large language model, lockdown, machine readable, machine translation, Mark Zuckerberg, market bubble, microaggression, Moneyball by Michael Lewis explains big data, natural language processing, Netflix Prize, Network effects, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, occupational segregation, old-boy network, OpenAI, openstreetmap, paperclip maximiser, pattern recognition, performance metric, personalized medicine, price discrimination, publish or perish, QR code, randomized controlled trial, remote working, risk tolerance, robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave, Ronald Coase, Salesforce, self-driving car, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social distancing, social intelligence, speech recognition, statistical model, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, surveillance capitalism, tech worker, TechCrunch disrupt, The Future of Employment, TikTok, Turing test, universal basic income, Wall-E, warehouse automation, women in the workforce, work culture , you are the product

It’s not an easy field. It can get frustrating. How is it that for years we’ve had laws on the books demanding equal treatment, and yet discrimination, unequal pay, harassment, and hostile work environments persist in every industry? How can we overcome years of exclusion, toxic work cultures, and glass ceilings? Human processing, by its very nature, discriminates—distinguishing between different categories and making decisions according to classifications and schemas that we’ve developed in our minds. Most of these processes are beneficial and efficient, the result of thousands of years of cognitive evolution allowing humans to make quick decisions.

Japanese sociologists have coined the derogatory term “parasite singles” to refer to women (though men also fit the bill) who choose not to marry and instead continue to live with their parents into their thirties. Journalist Annabel Crabb calls it the “wife drought.” (The subtitle of her book is also poignant: Why Women Need Wives and Men Need Lives.) Around the world, women are collapsing under the pressures of excelling in their careers, overcoming biases, and breaking glass ceilings while simultaneously holding their families and households together. Women still perform a disproportionately high load of caregiving, housekeeping, and homemaking. We are expected to engage in emotional labor, in social connectivity, and in child-rearing, cooking, cleaning, and entertaining.


New Localism and Regeneration Management by Jon Coaffee

glass ceiling, Kickstarter, place-making, post-industrial society, the built environment, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal

The National Audit Office – a report by the controller and auditor general on supporting innovation: managing risk in government departments 2000. The leadership role of women 137 IJPSM 18,2 138 References Adebowale, L. (2004), “Marginal points in Health Service Journal”, Health Service Journal, 3 June, pp. 43-4,. Baxter, J. and Wright, E.O. (2000), “The glass ceiling hypothesis: a comparative study of the United States, Sweden and Australia”, Gender and Society, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 275-95. Blair, T. (2002), “I have learned the limits of government”, Renewal, Vol. 10 No. 2. Carless, S.A. (1998), “Gender differences in transformational leadership: an examination of superior, leader and subordinate perspectives”, Sex Roles, Vol. 39 No. 11/12, pp. 887-902.


Top 10 Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp & Ghent by Antony Mason

Day of the Dead, glass ceiling, haute couture, Mercator projection, walkable city

Since the early 18th century, costumes of all kinds have been made for him; he now has over 800. corner of Rue de l´Étuve and Rue du Chêne Galeries Royales de Saint-Hubert Galeries Royales de Saint-Hubert Built in 1847, this was the first shopping arcade in Europe, and boasts magnificent vaulted glass ceilings. Rues des Bouchers Rue des Bouchers Many of the streets around the Grand Place reflect the trades that once operated there. The “Street of the Butchers” and its intersecting Petite Rue des Bouchers are famous for their lively restaurants and colourful displays of food. Église Saint-Nicolas St Nicholas of Myra – a.k.a.


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The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, Joel Hyatt

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, American ideology, Asian financial crisis, Berlin Wall, business cycle, centre right, classic study, clean water, complexity theory, computer age, crony capitalism, cross-subsidies, Danny Hillis, dark matter, dematerialisation, Deng Xiaoping, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, double helix, edge city, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, European colonialism, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial innovation, George Gilder, glass ceiling, global village, Gregor Mendel, Herman Kahn, hydrogen economy, industrial cluster, informal economy, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Isaac Newton, It's morning again in America, junk bonds, Just-in-time delivery, Kevin Kelly, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, life extension, market bubble, mass immigration, megacity, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neal Stephenson, Nelson Mandela, new economy, oil shock, open borders, out of africa, Productivity paradox, QR code, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, The Hackers Conference, the scientific method, Thomas L Friedman, upwardly mobile, Washington Consensus, We are as Gods, Whole Earth Catalog, women in the workforce, Y2K, zero-sum game

Over time, their own self-perception changes, as well as the views of the men they work with. As they advance through their careers, they take on more managerial responsibility and leadership roles and begin to change the organization itself and the environment for women who are entering the organization under them. Sure, they hit glass ceilings that surreptitiously protect concentrated centers of power held by men, but these days, they bump into that ceiling far less frequently, and with time, those ceilings will go, The EMERQENCE of WOMEN 245 too. The rising education of women plays out in many spheres, from the macro, like the economy, to the micro, like the home.

World War II vets, 121-123 challenge of current, 284 in education, 86 in the future, 277-278 in Japan, 121-123 new technologies and, 24 to Long Boom generation, 160, 282-284 Genetic engineering in animals, 193-195, 197 in human health care, 197-200 IQand, 198-199 moral responsibility, 199-200 328 Germany gross domestic product, 68 internal combustion engine, 171 in New Economy, 91-93 post-World War II era, 69-70, 117-118 rule of twos in, 112 Geron biotech firm, 197 GI Bill, 87 Gini index, 100 Glass ceilings, 244 Glass pipeline, 59 Global Business Network, 160 Global Corps, 78-79 Global governance, 61-62, 292 Globalization centralization in, 17 of commerce, 257-258 defined, 48 Global Equity Funds, 102-104 impact of, 5-6, 10 Long Boom generation and, 283 as megatrend, 2, 10, 48-51, 232-233 of middle class, 4, 209, 227, 232-235 plane travel and, 235-237 predictions about, 58-62 preservation of culture and, 234-235 as principle for economic growth, 256-258 of television, 235-236 West vs.


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The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era by Ellen Ruppel Shell

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", 3D printing, Abraham Maslow, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, AlphaGo, Amazon Mechanical Turk, basic income, Baxter: Rethink Robotics, big-box store, blue-collar work, Buckminster Fuller, call centre, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, collective bargaining, company town, computer vision, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, data science, deskilling, digital divide, disruptive innovation, do what you love, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, Elon Musk, emotional labour, Erik Brynjolfsson, factory automation, follow your passion, Frederick Winslow Taylor, future of work, game design, gamification, gentrification, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, hiring and firing, human-factors engineering, immigration reform, income inequality, independent contractor, industrial research laboratory, industrial robot, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, Jessica Bruder, job automation, job satisfaction, John Elkington, John Markoff, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, Kodak vs Instagram, labor-force participation, low skilled workers, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, move fast and break things, new economy, Norbert Wiener, obamacare, offshore financial centre, Paul Samuelson, precariat, Quicken Loans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, risk tolerance, Robert Gordon, Robert Shiller, Rodney Brooks, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, Second Machine Age, self-driving car, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, TED Talk, The Chicago School, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thomas L Friedman, Thorstein Veblen, Tim Cook: Apple, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, urban renewal, Wayback Machine, WeWork, white picket fence, working poor, workplace surveillance , Y Combinator, young professional, zero-sum game

The scholars conclude: “Our key finding is that the proportional increase in career earnings from obtaining a bachelor’s degree, relative to a high school diploma, is much smaller for individuals from lower-income families compared to those from higher-income families….Individuals from poorer backgrounds may be encountering a glass ceiling that even a bachelor’s degree does not break.” This phenomenon is not unique to the United States. As noted earlier, South Korea is the world’s largest producer of college graduates per capita, and at last count, over 50 percent of the total unemployed population in South Korea have college degrees.

This implies that among loans in the repayment cycle delinquency rates are roughly twice as high. college graduates who started life poor Brad Hershbein, “A College Degree Is Worth Less If You Are Raised Poor,” Brookings Institute, February 19, 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/​blog/​social-mobility-memos/​2016/​02/​19/​a-college-degree-is-worth-less-if-you-are-raised-poor/. “a glass ceiling that even a bachelor’s degree does not break” Timothy J. Bartik and Brad Hershbein, “Degrees of Poverty: Family Income Background and the College Earnings Premium,” Employment Research 23, no. 3 (2016): 1–3, https://doi.org/​10.17848/​1075-8445.23(3)-1. South Korea is the world’s largest producer Karin Fischer, “When Everyone Goes to College: A Lesson from South Korea,” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2016, https://www.chronicle.com/​article/​When-Everyone-Goes-to-College-/​236313. 37 percent of young adults hold a bachelor’s degree See Ryan and Bauman, “Educational Attainment.”


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Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity by Claudia Goldin

coronavirus, correlation coefficient, COVID-19, en.wikipedia.org, equal pay for equal work, estate planning, financial independence, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Grace Hopper, hiring and firing, income inequality, Internet Archive, job automation, labor-force participation, longitudinal study, occupational segregation, old-boy network, principal–agent problem, profit maximization, remote working, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, social distancing, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Almost sixty years later, female college graduates are largely on career tracks, but their earnings and promotions—relative to those of the men they graduated with—continue to make them look like they’ve been sideswiped. They, too, have a “problem with no name.” But their problem goes by many names: sex discrimination, gender bias, glass ceiling, mommy track, leaning out—take your pick. And the problem seems to have immediate solutions. We should coach women to be more competitive and train them to negotiate better. We need to expose managers’ implicit bias. The government should impose gender-parity mandates on corporate boards and enforce the equal-pay-for-equal-work doctrine.

See also earnings discrimination gender equality, 10, 205–6, 225, 234–35 gender norms: career slow-downs influenced by, 14; couple inequity reinforcing traditional, 10–11, 186; COVID-19 pandemic changes to, 226, 235; intergenerational transmission of, 289n168 gender roles, 84–85, 104–5 General Social Survey (GSS), 100, 100, 104, 278n104, 299n234 Gillibrand, Kirsten Rutnik, 19, 236, 262n19 Ginsburg, Marty, 233–34 Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 152, 176, 177, 233–34, 290n176 glass ceiling, 1 Goldman Sachs, 202, 230 Goldstein, Bettye. See Friedan, Betty Goodyear, 151–53 graduate degrees. See advanced and professional degrees Great Aspirations project, 103–7, 254–55, 277n103, 278n104 Great Depression: caregiving support in, 231–32; economic statistics necessitated by, 48; Group Two women during, 64–65, 74–77; marriage bar expansion with, 3, 28, 64, 68, 74–77, 76, 89, 232, 272n76; marriage effects of, 93; unemployment in, 64, 74–76, 93, 231 greedy work, 3, 9–13, 12, 16–17, 218, 225 Greenhouse, Linda, 44 The Group (McCarthy), 63–65, 67, 73–74, 81 Group divisions of college-graduate women: baton handed to next group, 23, 25, 44–45, 61–62; birth years for, 24, 25; bridges between, 46–47; overview of, 23–25, 24 Group One (graduating around 1900s to 1910s), 46–62; activism among, 57–58, 61; ambitions and aspirations of, 58–59; barriers and constraints for, 51–53; baton passed from, 61–62; birth years of, 24, 25; childbearing and childrearing in, 25–26, 36–38, 37, 39, 47, 50–51, 54–56, 60, 66, 66–67, 268n54; divorce in, 57, 233, 269n57; education in, 25–27, 39–45, 41, 49–50, 269n59; employment rates and experiences in, 25–27, 38, 39, 69, 77, 97, 233, 271n69, 276nn97,99; family or career choice for, 25–27, 54–55; graduation years of, 24, 25; Kyrk in, 26, 49–51, 54–55, 62, 235, 267n50; lessons from, 61–62, 64; marriage in, 25–26, 33–36, 34, 39, 47, 50–51, 53–57, 58–61, 66, 66–67, 77, 233, 269n56, 269–70nn59–60; notables among, 25–26, 51, 53–58, 66–67, 268nn53–54; overview of, 24, 25–27, 61–62; Rankin in, 19, 20, 24, 26, 145, 235; Reid in, 26, 46–51, 55, 62, 235, 237, 266n46, 267nn49–50 Group Two (graduating around 1920s to mid- 1940s), 63–83; ambitions and aspirations of, 64–65; barriers and constraints for, 64, 68; birth years of, 24, 28; as bridge generation, 65; childbearing and childrearing in, 28, 36–38, 37, 39, 65–67, 66; education in, 28–29, 39–45, 41, 70–71, 86; employment rates and experiences in, 28–29, 38, 39–40, 65, 68–73, 76–78, 232, 271n69; Friedan in, 24, 28, 236; gender earnings gap for, 160; graduation years of, 24, 28; Great Depression effects on, 64–65, 74–77; Group One lessons for, 64; household technology advances affecting, 67–68; job then family in, 28–29; marriage bars for, 28, 64, 68, 74–81, 89, 272nn74–76; marriage in, 28–29, 33–36, 34, 39, 65–67, 66, 72–73, 77–78; notables in, 66–67, 82; overview of, 24, 28–29; serials lives of, 82–83; white-collar work for, 65, 68–73, 76–77, 271n69 Group Three (graduating around mid-1940s to mid-1960s), 84–108; ambitions and aspirations of, 86, 87, 97–107, 108; birth years of, 24, 29, 142; childbearing and childrearing in, 29, 32, 36–38, 37, 39, 44, 87–88, 92–94, 99, 103–4, 116, 141–42, 143, 274n88, 278n104; childcare issues for, 88, 99, 102, 105–6, 108; Class of 1957 survey of, 98–103, 276nn95,98, 277n101; Class of 1961 survey of, 103–8, 277n103; divorce in, 29–30, 31, 263nn29,31; drop-out rates among, 85, 86–87, 274n87; education in, 29–30, 39–45, 41, 86, 91–92, 95–96, 101–2, 104, 105–6, 112, 124, 274n86, 276n95, 277n101, 278n104; employment rates and experiences in, 29–30, 38, 39–40, 87, 88–91, 95–96, 98–103, 106–8, 112, 123–24, 141–42, 143, 145, 233–34, 274n88, 277n103; family then job in, 29–30, 88, 96, 106, 108, 141–42; Friedan’s critique of, 85–87, 92, 95, 96–97, 101, 108; game plan of, 96–107; gender earnings gap for, 157, 160; graduation years of, 24, 29; lessons from, 25, 31–32, 112, 123–24, 126; marriage in, 29–30, 33–36, 34, 39, 43–44, 86–88, 91–95, 98–99, 103–4, 116, 118, 118, 233–34, 275n91, 278n104; overview of, 24, 29–30; serial lives of, 97; social norms influencing, 99–100, 100, 103, 104–5, 108; societal changes for, 92–95; TV show images of, 84–85, 87–88, 100–101 Group Four (graduating around mid-1960s to 1970s), 109–32; ambitions and aspirations of, 124–32; birth years of, 24, 30, 142, 284n139; career then family in, 30–33, 112–13, 115–16; childbearing and childrearing in, 32, 36–38, 37, 39, 44, 113, 115–16, 119, 121, 132, 138–39, 142, 143, 279n116, 284nn139, 141; contraception access in, 32, 109–12, 113, 115, 120–23, 236, 278n110; divorce in, 31–32, 115, 118–19, 263n31, 279–80nn118–119; education in, 30–33, 39–45, 41, 112–13, 115, 117, 122, 127–30, 129, 139, 146, 199, 284n139; employment rates and experiences in, 30–33, 38, 39–40, 107, 112–13, 119–20, 123–27, 125, 130–32, 131, 142, 143, 146, 280–81nn124, 126, 282nn130,132; expanded horizons of, 124–32; gender earnings gap for, 132, 157, 160, 224–25; graduation years of, 24, 30; Group Three lessons for, 25, 31–32, 112, 123–24, 126; identities in, 119, 121, 131–32; lessons from, 23, 25, 134–35; marriage in, 30–36, 34, 39, 44, 113, 115–18, 118, 121–22, 236, 279nn116–17; names in, 119; overview of, 24, 30–33; Quiet Revolution in, 109, 111–12, 119–24, 236; social norm changes for, 120, 123–32; TV show images of, 109, 111–12, 116, 236 Group Five (graduating around 1980s to 1990s, and beyond), 133–50; age and career advancement in, 198; ambitions and aspirations of, 134–35, 234, 283n134; birth years of, 19, 24, 33, 284n139, 296n222; career and family in, 33, 134–35, 147–50, 149, 299n234; childbearing and childrearing in, 33, 36–38, 37, 39, 133–34, 135–41, 142, 143, 147–50, 149, 236, 282–83nn133–134, 284nn139,141; COVID-19 pandemic effects on, 222–23; Duckworth in, 19, 20, 24; education in, 33, 39–45, 41, 139, 148–49, 149, 284n139; employment rates and experiences in, 33, 38, 39–40, 126, 134–35, 142–50, 143, 149; gender earnings gap for, 157, 160, 161, 161–62, 225; graduation years of, 24, 33; Group Four lessons for, 23, 25, 134–35; marriage in, 33–36, 34, 39, 117, 118, 147, 236, 264n36; overview of, 24, 33; success defined by, 141–47, 255–57; TV and film images of, 133–34, 282n133 GSS (General Social Survey), 100, 100, 104, 278n104, 299n234 Harris, Kamala, 236 Harvard and Beyond project, 147–50, 149, 169, 210, 257, 288n164, 293n210 Harvard-Radcliffe.


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Solr in Action by Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter

business intelligence, cloud computing, commoditize, conceptual framework, crowdsourcing, data acquisition, data science, en.wikipedia.org, failed state, fault tolerance, finite state, full text search, functional programming, glass ceiling, information retrieval, machine readable, natural language processing, openstreetmap, performance metric, premature optimization, recommendation engine, web application

Breakdown of eight fragments with scores generated for an example UFO sighting Fragment Score Brilliant blue oblong object zooms horizontally across southern sky at 2 in the morning. I awoke 1.0 suddenly because of the silence. Rain had been thundering on the glass ceiling, but suddenly I woke up 1.0 realizing the rain had stopped and there was complete silence (I sleep with windows open.) I looked 1.0 at the clock ... 2 AM ... and I looked at the sky through the glass ceiling. (I live on a lake so have a clear 0.0 view of the southern sky with no interference from trees, lights or houses.) Every star in the universe 0.0 was shining and suddenly, across the horizon, zoomed a brilliant blue something ... from west to east 1.0 .

Behind the scenes, PostingsHighlighter uses a sentence-aware approach to fragmenting based on Java’s BreakIterator class (see java.text.BreakIterator). For the second document in the results set for listing 9.2, PostingsHighlighter returns Brilliant blue oblong object zooms horizontally across southern sky at 2 in the morning. ... Rain had been thundering on the glass ceiling, but suddenly I woke up realizing the rain had stopped and there was complete silence (I sleep with windows open.) Unlike the other highlighters, PostingsHighlighter returns all snippets in one continuous string separated by an ellipsis (...). In addition to the benefits of speed and reduced indexing overhead, Postings-Highlighter uses a more advanced similarity calculation, called BM25, for scoring fragments.


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Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Lauren A. Rivera

affirmative action, availability heuristic, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, classic study, Donald Trump, emotional labour, fundamental attribution error, glass ceiling, income inequality, job satisfaction, knowledge economy, meritocracy, messenger bag, meta-analysis, new economy, performance metric, profit maximization, profit motive, school choice, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, tacit knowledge, tech worker, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wisdom of Crowds, unpaid internship, women in the workforce, young professional

BRENT: We don’t see a lot of students from top-tier schools at those job fairs; we’re seeing mostly students from middle- to what we would consider lower-tier schools…. We have plenty of really good students from top schools that we don’t have to [recruit from lower tiers]. LAUREN: Why do you think prestige is important? BRENT: Because that’s the base the firm wants. Because the partners are from those schools. Such pressures could result in a glass ceiling for minority students who did not attend top-ranked schools. In theory, the fairs gave these students opportunities to enter the pipeline. But in practice, since firms excluded from consideration most candidates from lower-tier schools, diversity fairs were a set of false doors. Of course, there were exceptions.

Rivera, Lauren, and Michèle Lamont. 2012. “Price vs. Pets, Schools vs. Styles: The Residential Priorities of the American Upper-Middle Class.” Presentation at the Eastern Sociological Association annual meeting, New York, August. Rivera, Lauren, Jayanti Owens, and Katherine Gan. 2015. “Glass Floors and Glass Ceilings: Sex Homophily and Heterophily in Hiring.” Working paper, Northwestern University. Rokeach, Milton. 1979. Understanding Human Values. New York: Free Press. Roose, Kevin. 2014. Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits. New York: Grand Central Publishing. Roscigno, Vincent. 2007.


Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris by Fodor's

call centre, car-free, carbon tax, flag carrier, glass ceiling, happiness index / gross national happiness, haute couture, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, high-speed rail, Kickstarter, Murano, Venice glass, Nelson Mandela, subprime mortgage crisis, urban planning, young professional

. $–$$ | Built in the late 19th century for a prominent ship owner, this picturesque stone house nestles right up to Paimpol’s main quay, with a view over a yacht and sailboat-stocked marina. Most of the 17 rooms have harbor views, and, if you’re lucky enough to nab No. 6, breakfast can be had on your own flower-bedecked balcony. Or if you prefer to catch some moonbeams, the Capitaine room offers a glass ceiling and splendid views from the bed. Although this family-run hotel focuses mostly on comfort and coziness rather than all-out luxury, the rooms—many with fireplaces and asian rugs—are quaintly decorated with traditional Breton touches, includingclassic armoires. The L’Islandais restaurant-creperie, in an old cod fisherman’s house, offers traditional Breton fare, including a bargain €18.50 menu.

. $$ | At the border of Montmartre’s now tamed red-light district sits this former cabaret with much of its Art Deco wood paneling and theatrical trappings intact. Prices are at the low end of its category. The hotel has dark, rich decor, with green walls, red armchairs, an antique caged elevator, and vaudeville posters in the stained-glass-ceiling lounge. Reproduction furniture, antique prints and oils, and busy modern fabrics fill out the larger-than-average rooms. Some windows face Sacré-Coeur. Guests receive a complimentary book illustrating the history of absinthe, which is once again served in the hotel’s historic bar. Pros: spacious rooms for the price; historic absinthe bar; close to Sacré-Coeur.


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The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, back-to-the-land, Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, capital controls, carbon tax, centre right, Charlie Hebdo massacre, collapse of Lehman Brothers, deindustrialization, desegregation, Donald Trump, eurozone crisis, financial deregulation, first-past-the-post, fixed income, full employment, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, laissez-faire capitalism, Les Trente Glorieuses, mass immigration, means of production, neoliberal agenda, obamacare, Occupy movement, open borders, plutocrats, Post-Keynesian economics, post-materialism, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, white flight, Winter of Discontent

As a result, Chirac was able to rout Le Pen, 82 percent to 18 percent, in the final runoff. Le Pen’s failure in the second round suggested that there were strict limits to the FN’s popularity. Too many voters identified the FN with the hated Vichy regime and thought of its leader as an anti-Semitic extremist. As his daughter Marine Le Pen put it, there was a “glass ceiling” that the FN could not break through. The 2007 election appeared to confirm that. Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been interior minister in Chirac’s administration, and was running as the candidate of the center-right UMP, took a hard line against the immigrant youths who had rioted in 2005 and against immigrants in general.


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The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior

Aaron Swartz, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, American ideology, barriers to entry, clean water, corporate personhood, crowdsourcing, David Brooks, David Graeber, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, gentrification, George Santayana, glass ceiling, income inequality, independent contractor, low skilled workers, Lyft, Marshall McLuhan, Mohammed Bouazizi, new economy, obamacare, Occupy movement, Oklahoma City bombing, payday loans, pink-collar, post-work, public intellectual, publish or perish, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, the medium is the message, trickle-down economics, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, unpaid internship, Upton Sinclair, urban decay, War on Poverty, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce

The majority of foreign policy bloggers and the vast majority of op-ed writers—with estimates ranging from 80 to 90 percent—are men. When lists of intellectuals are made, women tend to appear in a second-round, outrage-borne draft. Female intellectuals gain prominence through tales of their exclusion. They are known for being forgotten. People talk about the glass ceiling, but it is really a glass box. Everyone can see you struggling to move. There is an echo in the glass box as your voice fails to carry. You want to talk about it, but that runs the risk of making all people hear. Balancing Career with Motherhood Before the summer of 2012, Anne-Marie Slaughter was best known as an international relations theorist and advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


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The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future by Julia Hobsbawm

8-hour work day, Airbnb, augmented reality, Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Cal Newport, call centre, Cass Sunstein, collective bargaining, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, David Graeber, death from overwork, Diane Coyle, digital capitalism, digital nomad, driverless car, emotional labour, future of work, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Google Hangouts, Greensill Capital, job satisfaction, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, means of production, megacity, Neal Stephenson, Ocado, pensions crisis, remote working, San Francisco homelessness, Second Machine Age, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snow Crash, social distancing, solopreneur, Steve Jobs, systems thinking, TED Talk, The Great Resignation, the long tail, the strength of weak ties, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, Upton Sinclair, WeWork, work culture

None of this “I’m in Colorado… and getting paid like I’m sitting in New York City”’,12 echoing an equally robust statement from David Solomon of Goldman Sachs that working from home was ‘an aberration’.13 Similarly the veteran Wall Street observer William Cohan simply said this: ‘Here’s my advice to you, fellow Wall Street drones: Get back to the office.’14 In another camp are the more emollient hybrid softliners such as Kevin Ellis, London-based chairman of consultancy firm PwC with 285,000 employees in 155 countries around the world, who said that ‘we want to enshrine new working patterns so that they outlast the pandemic’.15 Regardless of which camp employers are in, it is obviously true that an awful lot of social capital resides in the office. I talked to Kevin Ellis, who said: ‘My worry is that we’re going to create a glass ceiling for people whose careers will be stunted because they’re working from home and not realising what they’re missing out on.’ Nevertheless, all of these comments reflect a wistfulness on the part of big business which can no longer magically attract the same kind of worker prepared to work in the same way they did before the pandemic.16 Hybrid working reflects the fact that mobility and freedom are the new prizes for the professional working class, who do not so much want to ‘clock on’ and ‘clock off’ as move seamlessly between work and private life.


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Frommer's Oregon by Karl Samson

airport security, Burning Man, carbon footprint, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, machine readable, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

Not only is this country inn a gorgeous interpretation of a French château, but it is one of the most luxurious lodging places on the entire coast. Each of the rooms fulfills a different fantasy of the perfect romantic escape. There is the Tower Room, with its circular breakfast nook and soaking tub; the Tapestry Room, with a stained-glass ceiling and a soaking tub; and the Tuscan spa, with a stone sink and private sauna. Lavish three-course breakfasts are served in the conservatory, and a dining room serves full dinners as well. So luxurious is this place that the fact that you aren’t right on the beach doesn’t even seem to matter. 31970 E.

In Baker City Built in 1889 at the height of the region’s gold rush, the Geiser Grand is by far the grandest hotel in eastern Oregon. With its corner turret and clock tower, the hotel is a classic 19th-century Western luxury hotel. In the center of the hotel is the Geiser Grill (p. 348) dining room, above which is suspended the largest stained-glass ceiling in the Northwest. Throughout the hotel, including in all the guest rooms, ornate crystal chandeliers add a crowning touch. Guest rooms also feature 10-foot windows, most of which look out to the Blue Mountains. The two cupola suites are the most luxurious, and evocative of the past. These two suites also have whirlpool tubs.

If you’re not in the mood for pizza, there are also sandwiches, soups, and a daily pasta dish on the menu. 1840 Main St. & 541/523-6099. Main courses $6–$15. DISC, MC, V. Mon–Fri 10am–3pm; Sat 11am–2pm. Geiser Grill AMERICAN Located in the central court of the historic Geiser Grand Hotel (p. 347), this restaurant, with its stained-glass ceiling, conjures a gold-rushera elegance. Mesquite-smoked prime rib and the wide variety of steaks are always good 15_537718-ch12.indd 348 3/17/10 2:08 PM 349 Chinese History in Eastern Oregon In the Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St. & 541/523-1889. www.geisergrand.com. Reservations recommended.


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The Scandal of Money by George Gilder

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, bank run, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, blockchain, borderless world, Bretton Woods, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carmen Reinhart, central bank independence, Claude Shannon: information theory, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, corporate governance, cryptocurrency, currency manipulation / currency intervention, currency risk, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, decentralized internet, Deng Xiaoping, disintermediation, Donald Trump, fiat currency, financial innovation, Fractional reserve banking, full employment, George Gilder, glass ceiling, guns versus butter model, Home mortgage interest deduction, impact investing, index fund, indoor plumbing, industrial robot, inflation targeting, informal economy, Innovator's Dilemma, Internet of things, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, James Carville said: "I would like to be reincarnated as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.", Jeff Bezos, John Bogle, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge economy, Law of Accelerating Returns, low interest rates, Marc Andreessen, Mark Spitznagel, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, Money creation, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, mortgage tax deduction, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, obamacare, OSI model, Paul Samuelson, Peter Thiel, Ponzi scheme, price stability, Productivity paradox, proprietary trading, purchasing power parity, quantitative easing, quantitative trading / quantitative finance, Ray Kurzweil, reality distortion field, reserve currency, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Satoshi Nakamoto, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, secular stagnation, seigniorage, Silicon Valley, Skinner box, smart grid, Solyndra, South China Sea, special drawing rights, The Great Moderation, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tim Cook: Apple, time value of money, too big to fail, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, Turing machine, winner-take-all economy, yield curve, zero-sum game

What is really going on is the displacement of the open and rabble-run IPO market by an exclusive game of horse trading among the most exalted elite of “qualified investors,” the owners of the leviathans of the last generation of IPOs. Capped by such regulatory tolls and encumbrances as the accounting mazes of Sarbanes-Oxley, Fair Disclosure’s code of omertà, and the EPA’s “cautionary principle” barring innovative manufacturing, the new Silicon Valley confines ascendant companies beneath a glass ceiling. From Apple to Google, a few public giants dominate this private-company market since they are the only potential buyers. Within this confined space, every titan is more eager to purchase his start-up rivals than to compete with them. Whitewashed and fitted out with shiny horns, the aspiring “unicorns” shuffle through the corrals of Sand Hill Road and the carrels of Cupertino, seeking sustenance from smart-set venture capitalists and international tech tycoons.


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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, An Inconvenient Truth, assortative mating, Bernie Sanders, Branko Milanovic, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, circulation of elites, cognitive dissonance, desegregation, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, full employment, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, helicopter parent, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, income inequality, knowledge economy, land value tax, longitudinal study, meritocracy, mortgage tax deduction, obamacare, Occupy movement, plutocrats, positional goods, precautionary principle, race to the bottom, randomized controlled trial, restrictive zoning, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, working-age population, zero-sum game

But it is a stubborn mathematical fact that, at any given time, the top fifth of the income distribution can accommodate only 20 percent of the population. Relative intergenerational mobility is necessarily a zero-sum game. For one person to move up the ladder, somebody else must move down. Sometimes that will have to be one of our own children. Otherwise the glass floor protecting affluent kids from falling acts also as a glass ceiling, blocking upward mobility for those born on a lower rung of the ladder. The problem we face is not just class separation, but class perpetuation. There are two factors driving class perpetuation at the top: the unequal development of “market merit” and some unfair “opportunity hoarding.” MARKET MERITOCRACY REWARDS SKILLS DEVELOPED BY THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS In a market economy, the people who develop the skills and attributes valued in the market will have better outcomes.


Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore, Elizabeth Truss

Airbnb, banking crisis, Carmen Reinhart, central bank independence, clockwatching, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, demographic dividend, Edward Glaeser, eurozone crisis, fail fast, fear of failure, financial engineering, glass ceiling, informal economy, James Dyson, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge economy, long peace, margin call, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, megacity, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Neil Kinnock, new economy, North Sea oil, oil shock, open economy, paypal mafia, pension reform, price stability, profit motive, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Jobs, Suez crisis 1956, tech worker, Walter Mischel, wealth creators, Winter of Discontent, working-age population, Yom Kippur War

A YouGov poll in 2008 found that just a quarter of benefit claimants thought they would be better off from working; 39 per cent were convinced they would be worse off if they worked harder.39 As the Centre for Social Justice has documented, for too long work has not paid. The loss of benefits from taking up a new job has been as great as any gain in wages. Welfare dependency has created a glass ceiling that prevents climbing the employment ladder. For one single mother interviewed, Jane, taking into account the withdrawal of Work Ethic 71 benefits, 75 per cent of her increased earning potential would be offset by the loss of benefits, resulting in a negligible economic incentive to take on a job.40 Another growing cost to work is the burden from childcare.


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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, anti-bias training, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, crony capitalism, defund the police, deindustrialization, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ferguson, Missouri, fulfillment center, full employment, George Floyd, ghettoisation, gig economy, glass ceiling, informal economy, Jeff Bezos, knowledge economy, liberal capitalism, lockdown, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, meritocracy, minimum wage unemployment, new economy, Norman Mailer, obamacare, off-the-grid, postindustrial economy, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, QAnon, ride hailing / ride sharing, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, too big to fail, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, white flight, working poor, young professional

During the pandemic the San Francisco Board of Education took on the project of changing the names of Abraham Lincoln High School, Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School, and dozens of other “problematically” named schools, while keeping isolated and demoralized children out of all schools, whatever their names. Mastheads and tables of contents changed, pictures and statues were taken down, glass ceilings shattered, but no one honestly expected to do much about the material conditions of misery. The summer of 2020 became an affair of, by, and for professionals. It led to few concrete ideas for helping disadvantaged Black people and a slogan (“defund the police”) that created endless confusion and antagonism.


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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson

"Margaret Hamilton" Apollo, "Susan Fowler" uber, 2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, 4chan, 8-hour work day, Aaron Swartz, Ada Lovelace, AI winter, air gap, Airbnb, algorithmic bias, AlphaGo, Amazon Web Services, Andy Rubin, Asperger Syndrome, augmented reality, Ayatollah Khomeini, backpropagation, barriers to entry, basic income, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Bletchley Park, blockchain, blue-collar work, Brewster Kahle, Brian Krebs, Broken windows theory, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, cellular automata, Charles Babbage, Chelsea Manning, Citizen Lab, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, computer vision, Conway's Game of Life, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, Danny Hillis, data science, David Heinemeier Hansson, deep learning, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, disinformation, don't be evil, don't repeat yourself, Donald Trump, driverless car, dumpster diving, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ernest Rutherford, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, fake news, false flag, Firefox, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Free Software Foundation, Gabriella Coleman, game design, Geoffrey Hinton, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Google Hangouts, Google X / Alphabet X, Grace Hopper, growth hacking, Guido van Rossum, Hacker Ethic, hockey-stick growth, HyperCard, Ian Bogost, illegal immigration, ImageNet competition, information security, Internet Archive, Internet of things, Jane Jacobs, John Markoff, Jony Ive, Julian Assange, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, Larry Wall, lone genius, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Shuttleworth, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, meritocracy, microdosing, microservices, Minecraft, move 37, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, Network effects, neurotypical, Nicholas Carr, Nick Bostrom, no silver bullet, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, Oculus Rift, off-the-grid, OpenAI, operational security, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, PageRank, PalmPilot, paperclip maximiser, pattern recognition, Paul Graham, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, pink-collar, planetary scale, profit motive, ransomware, recommendation engine, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rubik’s Cube, Ruby on Rails, Sam Altman, Satoshi Nakamoto, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, self-driving car, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, single-payer health, Skype, smart contracts, Snapchat, social software, software is eating the world, sorting algorithm, South of Market, San Francisco, speech recognition, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, systems thinking, TaskRabbit, tech worker, techlash, TED Talk, the High Line, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, universal basic income, urban planning, Wall-E, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, WeWork, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Y Combinator, Zimmermann PGP, éminence grise

“As it became a profession . . . it became an avenue that women were pretty much shut out of—in general,” Allen told Abatte. “There were fewer women.” There were still pockets of prominent women, particularly in professional societies, and areas like compilers. But “in lots of places, there was a huge glass ceiling.” She stuck through to the end, though, and by the early ’00s she was still hacking at IBM, helping to create Blue Gene, the computer that would become the basis of Watson, IBM’s elite artificial intelligence. If we wanted to pinpoint a moment when things flipped, we could look at one year in particular: 1984.

“I thought it was women’s work”: Janet Abbate, “Oral-History: Elsie Shutt,” Engineering and Technology History Wiki, accessed August 18, 2018, https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Elsie_Shutt. “Mixing Math and Motherhood”: Abbate, Recoding Gender, 113–44. and unkempt grooming: Ensmenger, “Making Programming Masculine,” 128–29. “huge glass ceiling”: Abbate, “Oral-History: Frances ‘Fran’ Allen.” as a career was equal: Steven James Devlin, “Sex Differences among Computer Programmers, Computer Application Users and General Computer Users at the Secondary School Level: An Investigation of Sex Role Self-concept and Attitudes toward Computers” (PhD diss., Temple University, 1991), 2, accessed September 27, 2018, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?


A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Anton Chekhov, glass ceiling, security theater, stakhanovite

With eighty tables scattered around a marble fountain and a menu offering everything from cabbage piroghi to cutlets of veal, the Piazza was meant to be an extension of the city—of its gardens, markets, and thoroughfares. It was a place where Russians cut from every cloth could come to linger over coffee, happen upon friends, stumble into arguments, or drift into dalliances—and where the lone diner seated under the great glass ceiling could indulge himself in admiration, indignation, suspicion, and laughter without getting up from his chair. And the waiters? Like those of a Parisian café, the Piazza’s waiters could best be complimented as “efficient.” Accustomed to navigating crowds, they could easily seat your party of eight at a table for four.

Only, under the floor of this restaurant was an elaborate mechanics of axles, cogs, and gears; and jutting from an outside wall was a giant crank, at the turn of which, each of the restaurant’s chairs would pirouette like a ballerina on a music box, then spin around the space until they came to a stop at an entirely different table. And towering over this tableau, peering down through the glass ceiling, was a gentleman of sixty with his hand on the crank, preparing to set the diners in motion. 1952 America On a Wednesday evening in late June, the Count and Sofia walked arm in arm into the Boyarsky, where it was their custom to dine on the Count’s night off. “Good evening, Andrey.”


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Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco by Erika Lenkert

Albert Einstein, Bay Area Rapid Transit, car-free, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Day of the Dead, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, retail therapy, South of Market, San Francisco, three-masted sailing ship

Even countless renovations haven’t entirely squelched the hotel’s majestic, oldworld feel. As spectacular as the old regal lobby is the Garden Court, a San Francisco landmark that’s been restored to its original 1909 grandeur. Take a peek into the Garden Court, if only to look at the massive Italianmarble Ionic columns, enormous chandeliers, and the 80,000-pane stained-glass ceiling. You also might want to duck into the Pied Piper Bar to check out its $2.5-million Maxfield Parrish mural. Upon leaving the hotel, if you turn left, you’ll find yourself on Market Street, where you can catch any number of public buses or, if you’ve got the stamina, head a few blocks northwest to embark on the Union Square tour


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Unleashed by Anne Morriss, Frances Frei

"Susan Fowler" uber, Airbnb, An Inconvenient Truth, Black Lives Matter, book value, Donald Trump, future of work, gamification, gig economy, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, Greyball, Jeff Bezos, Netflix Prize, Network effects, performance metric, race to the bottom, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, SoftBank, Steve Jobs, super pumped, TaskRabbit, TED Talk, Tony Hsieh, Toyota Production System, Travis Kalanick, Uber for X, WeWork, women in the workforce, work culture

Also keep in mind that just because someone has “made it,” so to speak, it doesn’t mean that slights and indignities have been eliminated from their daily experience. Status doesn’t inoculate your colleagues from the pain of other people’s biases and ignorance, or from the scars they may have earned crashing through glass ceilings. Promotion doesn’t heal all wounds. Your work is not done when you give someone a corner office and a bottle of champagne. So go ahead: be proactive and execute steps one through three with excellence and joy. Attract great people, give them interesting work to do, and invest in them as if your company’s future depends on it.


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The New Snobbery by David Skelton

assortative mating, banking crisis, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, call centre, centre right, collective bargaining, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, critical race theory, David Brooks, defund the police, deindustrialization, Etonian, Extinction Rebellion, financial deregulation, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, housing crisis, income inequality, Jeremy Corbyn, job automation, knowledge economy, lockdown, low skilled workers, market fundamentalism, meritocracy, microaggression, new economy, Northern Rock, open borders, postindustrial economy, race to the bottom, rent-seeking, Richard Florida, Right to Buy, rising living standards, shareholder value, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, TED Talk, TikTok, wealth creators, women in the workforce

They all had impressive life stories, with many coming from the humblest backgrounds to become Conservative MPs, and often having successful professional careers on the way. The moral of most of the stories was the same: if you work hard and are determined enough then you too can be a success. The tale, as with many social mobility success stories, was of glass ceilings smashed, multiple career successes achieved and this success allowing people to leave their humble origins behind. Nick Timothy recalls a similar tale of former Education Secretary Justine Greening talking about how hard work had allowed her to get out of her hometown of Rotherham and pursue a successful career in London.


Coastal California Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

1960s counterculture, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Apollo 11, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bike sharing, Burning Man, buy and hold, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, company town, Day of the Dead, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, flex fuel, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, income inequality, intermodal, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, low cost airline, Lyft, machine readable, Mason jar, military-industrial complex, New Journalism, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, Peoples Temple, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South of Market, San Francisco, starchitect, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, trade route, transcontinental railway, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl, Wall-E, white picket fence, Whole Earth Catalog, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional, Zipcar

oPalace HotelHOTEL$$$ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %415-512-1111; www.sfpalace.com; 2 New Montgomery St; r from $300; aiWs#; mMontgomery, ZMontgomery) The 1906 landmark Palace remains a monument to turn-of-the-century grandeur, with 100-year-old Austrian-crystal chandeliers and Maxfield Parrish paintings. Cushy (if staid) accommodations cater to expense-account travelers, but prices drop at weekends. Even if you're not staying here, visit the opulent Garden Court to sip tea beneath a translucent glass ceiling. There's also a spa; kids love the big pool. North Beach & Chinatown Pacific Tradewinds HostelHOSTEL$ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %415-433-7970; www.san-francisco-hostel.com; 680 Sacramento St; dm $35-45; hfront desk 8am-midnight; niW; g1, jCalifornia, ZMontgomery) San Francisco's smartest all-dorm hostel has a blue-and-white nautical theme, a fully equipped kitchen (free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all day!)

Downtown Santa Barbara 1Top Sights 1MOXIC5 2Santa Barbara County CourthouseC2 1Sights 3Chase Palm ParkE6 4East BeachE7 5El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic ParkD3 6Santa Barbara Historical MuseumD3 7Santa Barbara Maritime MuseumA7 8Santa Barbara Museum of ArtC2 9Sea CenterC7 10Stearns WharfC7 11West BeachC6 2Activities, Courses & Tours 12Condor ExpressB6 13Land & Sea ToursC6 14Paddle Sports CenterA7 15Santa Barbara Adventure CompanyC4 16Santa Barbara Bikes To-GoE6 17Santa Barbara Sailing CenterA6 18Santa Barbara TrolleyD6 19Sunset Kidd's Sailing CruisesA7 20Surf HappensC4 21Surf-n-Wear's Beach HouseC6 Truth AquaticsB6 22Wheel Fun RentalsC6 4Sleeping 23Brisas del MarA5 24Canary HotelC2 25Castillo InnB6 26Franciscan InnB5 27Harbor House InnB6 28Hotel CalifornianC6 29Hotel IndigoC5 30Inn of the Spanish GardenD2 31Marina Beach MotelB6 32White Jasmine InnB1 5Eating 33Arigato SushiC1 34BouchonC1 35Brophy BrothersA7 Corazon CocinaC1 36Dawn PatrolC5 37El Buen GustoF2 38La Super-Rica TaqueriaF3 39LarkC5 40Lilly's TaqueríaC5 41LoquitaC5 42Los AgavesF4 43Lucky PennyC5 44McConnell's Fine Ice CreamsC3 45MetropulosD5 46Olio PizzeriaC4 47OpalC1 48Palace GrillC4 49Santa Barbara Shellfish CompanyC7 50Shop CafeF3 51SomersetC1 52TomaB6 53Yoichi'sD1 6Drinking & Nightlife 54Brass BearC6 55BrewhouseB5 56Corks n' CrownsC6 Cutler's Artisan SpiritsC5 Figueroa Mountain Brewing CoC5 Good LionC1 57Handlebar Coffee RoastersD3 58Municipal WinemakersC6 59Press RoomC3 Riverbench Winery Tasting RoomC5 60Test PilotC5 61Valley ProjectC5 62WaterlineD5 3Entertainment 63Arlington TheatreC1 64Granada TheatreC1 65Lobero TheatreC3 66Santa Barbara BowlF2 67SohoC1 68Velvet JonesC4 7Shopping 69Channel Islands SurfboardsC5 70Chocolate MayaC4 71CRSVR Sneaker BoutiqueC3 72DianiC1 73Paseo NuevoC3 74REIC5 75Santa Barbara Farmers MarketC4 76Santa Barbara Public MarketC1 1Sights oMOXIMUSEUM (Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %805-770-5000; www.moxi.org; 125 State St; adult/child $14/10; h10am-5pm; c) Part of the regeneration of this neglected strip of State St, Moxi's three floors filled with hands-on displays covering science, arts and technology themes will tempt families in, even when it's not raining outside. If all that interactivity gets too much, head to the roof terrace for views across Santa Barbara and a nerve-challenging walk across a glass ceiling. Highlights include booths where you re-create sound effects from famous movie scenes, the 'mind ball' game where you use just your calm thoughts to move a metal ball against an opponent, and workshops that feature different make-and-learn activities. Weekends get very busy with waits for many of the exhibits, so try to come during the week when it's quieter.

All the better to quaff craft beers and cocktails like The Dorothy Mantooth (gin, Giffard Violette, lime, cucumber, Champagne) and chow on truffle-parm tots, fried-chicken sandwiches or fried oreos. oPolite ProvisionsCOCKTAIL BAR ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %619-677-3784; www.politeprovisions.com; 4696 30th St, North Park; h3pm-2am Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2am Fri-Sun) With a French-bistro feel and plenty of old-world charm, Polite Provisions' hip clientele sip cocktails at the marble bar, under a glass ceiling, and in a beautifully designed space, complete with vintage cash register, wood-paneled walls and tiled floors. Many cocktail ingredients, syrups, sodas and infusions are homemade and displayed in apothecary-esque bottles. Blind Lady Ale HousePUB ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %619-225-2491; http://blindlady.blogspot.com; 3416 Adams Ave; h5pm-midnight Mon-Thu, from 11:30am Fri-Sun) A superb neighborhood pub, with creative decor like beer cans piled floor to ceiling and longboard skateboards attached to the walls.


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The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World by Aaron Hurst

Abraham Maslow, Airbnb, Alvin Toffler, Atul Gawande, barriers to entry, benefit corporation, big-box store, bike sharing, Bill Atkinson, business process, call centre, carbon footprint, citizen journalism, commoditize, corporate social responsibility, crowdsourcing, disintermediation, do well by doing good, Elon Musk, Firefox, General Magic , glass ceiling, greed is good, housing crisis, independent contractor, informal economy, Jane Jacobs, jimmy wales, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, Lean Startup, longitudinal study, Max Levchin, means of production, Mitch Kapor, new economy, pattern recognition, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, QR code, Ray Oldenburg, remote working, Ronald Reagan, selection bias, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Steve Jobs, TaskRabbit, TED Talk, Tony Hsieh, too big to fail, underbanked, women in the workforce, work culture , young professional, Zipcar

We are not alone. 82 percent of women in the United States now work, a 250 percent increase since the 1950s.11 Fewer than 7 percent of households have only a male breadwinner.12 This is a radical change in our households and lives. As the Industrial Economy gave way to the Information Economy, labor transitioned from a physical to an intellectual endeavor, an important factor in opening doors for women to join the workforce in legions. Despite a persistent glass ceiling at the top of most corporations, women have risen to higher-level roles in steadily increasing numbers, and this has contributed to another core driver of the growth of the Purpose Economy. Economics has historically been a male-dominated profession, and so it is of little surprise that household work was never considered in the calculation of the nation’s economic output.


The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival by Dr. Stephen R Palumbi Phd, Ms. Carolyn Sotka M. A.

California gold rush, clean water, glass ceiling, land tenure, Ronald Reagan, Works Progress Administration

As she did throughout her civic career, Julia showed a gift for taking complex issues and boiling them down to their bare essentials. Summer research at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, Massachusetts allowed her to delve into marine biology, a career she was determined to pursue. But throughout her training, Julia’s ambitions continued to bump against the glass ceiling of academia. A woman could not pursue a zoology Ph.D. in the United States in the late 1800s. However, the University of Freiburg in Baden, Germany offered her a chance to pursue an advanced degree, and she was one of the first women to obtain a zoological Ph.D. there. Julia researched the developing embryos of a small shark named the spiny dogfish, penning the first description of how the primitive vertebrate spinal cord sprouts a brain.


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Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock

4chan, Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris, anti-work, antiwork, augmented reality, barriers to entry, battle of ideas, Boris Johnson, Build a better mousetrap, butterfly effect, call centre, capitalist realism, collective bargaining, Columbine, conceptual framework, cuban missile crisis, David Graeber, deindustrialization, deskilling, Donald Trump, emotional labour, game design, gamification, gentrification, gig economy, glass ceiling, global supply chain, global value chain, Hacker Ethic, Howard Zinn, Ian Bogost, independent contractor, Jeremy Corbyn, John Conway, Kickstarter, Landlord’s Game, late capitalism, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, microaggression, military-industrial complex, Minecraft, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Oculus Rift, pink-collar, planned obsolescence, scientific management, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, SimCity, Steve Bannon, systems thinking, tech worker, union organizing, unpaid internship, V2 rocket, WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War

The managerial practices of crunch feed directly into this issue, with the “long-hours culture” acting as both a cause and effect of the institutionalized sexism in the industry.91 Those with caring responsibilities, who are overwhelmingly women, find it harder to work such long days, which means this kind of work can become off limits for them. They therefore face direct barriers that are the result of sexism. These take the form of a “glass ceiling” preventing career progression, but also as additional pressures in terms of the “classic invisible role of reproductive labor, covering the deficit of household tasks and emotional labor of which [women’s] exhausted partners are incapable.”92 Regarding the lack of diversity, the 2017 IGDA survey suggested that it is less a concern for people hiring workers than it is for the workers themselves.


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Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, Donald Trump, Garrett Hardin, glass ceiling, Haight Ashbury, index fund, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, Joan Didion, job satisfaction, Landlord’s Game, means of production, moral hazard, new economy, Norman Mailer, Occupy movement, precariat, Robert Shiller, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, Tragedy of the Commons, trickle-down economics, Upton Sinclair, wage slave, wages for housework

As soon as possible, I say. Most of the professors he advises plan to keep working well past the usual retirement age, he tells me. Yes, I know those professors. I work with them, or for them. I don’t explain the difference between my job and theirs—the higher course load, the lower pay, the basement office, the glass ceiling. I just say, I’m not like them. Then you’re going to need to invest aggressively, he says. High risk, high return. He shows me a pie chart with stocks and bonds. He’s talking about various kinds of investment now, index funds and hedge funds and options and futures. I ask, halfheartedly, what futures are.


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Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds by Dominique Mielle

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, airline deregulation, Alan Greenspan, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, blood diamond, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, capital asset pricing model, Carl Icahn, centre right, collateralized debt obligation, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, COVID-19, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, diversification, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, family office, fear of failure, financial innovation, fixed income, full employment, glass ceiling, high net worth, hockey-stick growth, index fund, intangible asset, interest rate swap, John Meriwether, junk bonds, Larry Ellison, lateral thinking, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, managed futures, mega-rich, merger arbitrage, Michael Milken, Myron Scholes, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, offshore financial centre, Paul Samuelson, profit maximization, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, risk free rate, risk tolerance, risk-adjusted returns, satellite internet, Savings and loan crisis, Sharpe ratio, Sheryl Sandberg, SoftBank, survivorship bias, Tesla Model S, too big to fail, tulip mania, union organizing

It is somewhat a vicious circle: not enough women as role models, which leads, at least partly, to doubting one’s own competence, which cannot be assuaged by female peers. And if there happens to be, oh miracle, one other woman, it is hard to be supportive rather than competitive if, looking around the office, there only seems to be room for one of your kind. It is not so much a glass ceiling as it is a quicksand floor. As a woman at Canyon, but even more so as a foreigner, I felt slightly incongruous, not unlike my summer as a foreign exchange student in a Japanese family or my first job as a coincidental banker in New York. The feeling was familiar, perhaps even comfortable. Somehow, I feel comfortable being uncomfortable.


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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", 1960s counterculture, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, Bernie Sanders, British Empire, Cass Sunstein, clean water, collective bargaining, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, corporate governance, corporate personhood, corporate social responsibility, desegregation, Donald Trump, financial innovation, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, income inequality, invisible hand, joint-stock company, laissez-faire capitalism, land reform, obamacare, offshore financial centre, plutocrats, Powell Memorandum, profit maximization, profit motive, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, refrigerator car, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, shareholder value, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, South Sea Bubble, the scientific method, too big to fail, trade route, transcontinental railway, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, vertical integration, yellow journalism

Despite the fact that Powell had indicated in the deliberations over Virginia Pharmacy that he did not believe that listeners had a “right to know,” he could nonetheless use Alan Morrison and Ralph Nader’s theory, developed in the context of individuals, to keep Blackmun’s vote and win broader rights for corporations.60 The idea to focus on the rights of listeners rather than the rights of corporations was apparently first suggested to Powell by Nancy Bregstein, one of his law clerks. Like many young women in the mid-1970s, Bregstein was wont to shatter glass ceilings. She had integrated Yale University as part of its first female undergraduate class and was graduated in 1973 magna cum laude. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she was the first female editor-in-chief of the law review. After her clerkship with Powell, she would go on to become one of only a handful of women partners in the major Washington, DC, law firms.

Although she had no prior experience as an appellate advocate, she would have to hold her own in the highest court in the land against formidable adversaries: Olson, the dean of the Supreme Court bar, and Floyd Abrams, a renowned First Amendment lawyer who had argued for a libertarian approach to free speech in a number of landmark First Amendment cases and was now appearing on behalf of Senator McConnell. Unfortunately for Kagan, the Citizens United case presented its own form of glass ceiling. No matter how well she performed her job, she was bound to lose. The return of Citizens United was also a sign of how much progress had been made by another, lesser-known civil rights movement—the one for corporations. It was exactly two hundred years after Horace Binney and the Bank of the United States brought the first corporate rights case to the Supreme Court in 1809.


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Fodor's Rome: With the Best City Walks and Scenic Day Trips by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

call centre, Donald Trump, flag carrier, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute couture, haute cuisine, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, low cost airline, Mason jar, mega-rich, messenger bag, Murano, Venice glass, retail therapy, starchitect, urban planning, young professional

The building alone impresses, as it should: the design, by Anglo-Iraqi starchitect Zaha Hadid, won over 272 other contest entries. The building plays with lots of natural light, curving and angular lines, and big open spaces, all meant to question the division between “within” and “without” (think glass ceilings and steel staircases that twist through the air). While not every critic adored it in its 2010 unveiling, more and more Romans are becoming delighted by this surprisingly playful space. The museum hosts temporary exhibits on art, architecture, film, and more; past shows have showcased Michelangelo Pistoletto and Pietro Nervi.

. $$$$ | HOTEL | Once one of Rome’s landmark fixtures, this 17th-century palazzo used to be a favorite address for everyone from Stendhal to Sartre along with a bevy of crowned (and uncrowned—Carlotta, the deposed empress of Mexico resided here for a while) heads but none would recognize the former grand hotel since its zillion-dollar renovation two decades ago: results were mixed, from the gaudy (that lobby glass ceiling) to the great (the rooftop restaurant, which allows you to almost touch the dome of the Pantheon). Happily, it retains its prime position in the lovely square that is home to Bernini’s elephant obelisk and just around the corner from Hadrian’s mighty temple. Though many of the rooms have had a face-lift in recent years, several guest rooms still have furnishings that are a bit outdated and worn around the edges.


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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein

addicted to oil, An Inconvenient Truth, carbon footprint, clean water, glass ceiling, hindcast, hydraulic fracturing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), LNG terminal, off-the-grid, oil shale / tar sands, profit motive, public intellectual, Saturday Night Live, the scientific method

It’s a greenhouse gas that exists in trace quantities in the atmosphere—just under .03 percent (270 parts per million, or ppm) before the industrial revolution, a level that we have increased to .04 percent (396 ppm).22 How do we know about the greenhouse effect of CO2? The best way: it can be studied in a laboratory. The temperature difference between a box with a glass ceiling and normal atmospheric gas concentrations and one with additional CO2 is measured when sunlight shines into it. As with any effect, a crucial question is: What is its magnitude—including, at what rate does additional CO2 change the effect? Some phenomena are linear, which would mean that every molecule of CO2 you add to the system will add a unit of heat the same size as the last one.


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Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future by John Whitelegg

active transport: walking or cycling, Berlin Wall, British Empire, car-free, carbon tax, conceptual framework, congestion charging, congestion pricing, corporate social responsibility, Crossrail, decarbonisation, Donald Shoup, energy transition, eurozone crisis, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), megacity, meta-analysis, negative emissions, New Urbanism, peak oil, post-industrial society, price elasticity of demand, price mechanism, Right to Buy, smart cities, telepresence, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Spirit Level, transit-oriented development, urban planning, urban sprawl

The German experience points to the importance of a non-obesogenic environment, high quality, safe walking, cycling and public transport offers and an accessibility rich urban structure i.e. the city of short distances. Women It should not come as a surprise to find that the mobility paradigm discriminates in favour of men and against women. At a wider societal level there is a widespread recognition that women have more difficulty progressing to higher levels of salary and status than men (the “glass ceiling” problem), women earn less than men for doing similar work and the proportion of women in senior positions in local or central government is low or very low. Whitelegg (2013) analysed the proportion of women in municipal government (low) and linked this with the preferences of men and women for different outcomes to explain why, in the UK at least, there are poor quality outcomes from our local councils.


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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra

Alan Turing: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Apple II, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, British Empire, business process, Californian Ideology, Charles Babbage, conceptual framework, create, read, update, delete, crowdsourcing, don't repeat yourself, Donald Knuth, East Village, European colonialism, finite state, Firefox, Flash crash, functional programming, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, Hacker News, haute couture, hype cycle, iterative process, Jaron Lanier, John von Neumann, land reform, London Whale, Norman Mailer, Paul Graham, pink-collar, revision control, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Skype, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, supercomputer in your pocket, synthetic biology, tech worker, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, theory of mind, Therac-25, Turing machine, wikimedia commons, women in the workforce

Average Indian and Chinese programmers, on the other hand, tend to be all over the place and are least likely to innovate something new in their specific area.82 In reference to the success of Indians in Silicon Valley, the tech entrepreneur and academic Vivek Wadhwa credits efficient and ceaseless networking: The first few [company founders] who cracked the glass ceiling had open discussions about the hurdles they had faced. They agreed that the key to uplifting their community, and fostering more entrepreneurship in general, was to teach and mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs. They formed networking organizations to teach others about starting businesses, and to bring people together.


Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Dublin by Geoff Wallis

Celtic Tiger, Columbine, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine

The Bank The Steps of Rome College Green. Behind its 1 Chatham Court, Chatham St T 01/670 5630. Tiny, basic distinctive Scottish sandstone facade, the former Belfast Bank has been sensitively converted in all its Victorian splendour in to one of Dublin’s most luxurious bars: mosaic floors, stained glass ceiling, beautiful plaster rosettes and porphyry columns, all best admired from the projecting mezzanine. More prosaic sustenance is provided by a good selection of beers, wines and cocktails, as well as salads, sandwiches and main meals, but who needs the latest stock market prices flashed above the bar?


Working Hard, Hardly Working by Grace Beverley

Cal Newport, clockwatching, COVID-19, David Heinemeier Hansson, death from overwork, glass ceiling, global pandemic, hustle culture, Jeff Bezos, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, Paradox of Choice, Parkinson's law, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, stop buying avocado toast, TED Talk, TikTok, unpaid internship, work culture

But the reality is that working parents, non-working mothers, students – just about anyone – is susceptible to experiencing burnout and a warped productivity image. It doesn’t have to manifest as working weekends or not taking holiday – in some sectors, it might present as a culture of busyness, or the ability to juggle being a good parent and guardian and smashing that glass ceiling. Whatever your situation, burnout is really fucking hard rather than cool and glamorous – and it’ll be significantly more difficult to pick yourself back up after experiencing it. It’s time to take a long, hard look at what being productive actually entails, and to do that, we need to come up with a new definition and celebrate the fact that productivity isn’t about working all the time.


Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path by Erin Loechner

clean water, fear of failure, glass ceiling, Kickstarter, Kintsugi, late fees, Mason jar, off-the-grid, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe, instead, love is a bit like candy in a parade or a pinata or a backyard Easter egg hunt. There’s enough to go around; it needn’t be rationed. No math required. I once believed there is little room for empowerment in a marriage. I watched working women in suit jackets and pumps on Monday mornings, fighting glass ceilings, chasing corner offices, bloodying their cuticles during the week and covering the scars with a coat of fresh nail polish on the weekend. I wondered what it was like for their husbands. Were they proud? Jealous? Did they no longer feel necessary in the partnership? Did they feel pushed aside, reprioritized, lower on the totem pole of female actualization?


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Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away by Julien Saunders, Kiersten Saunders

barriers to entry, basic income, Big Tech, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, blockchain, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, death from overwork, digital divide, diversification, do what you love, Donald Trump, estate planning, financial independence, follow your passion, future of work, gig economy, glass ceiling, global pandemic, index fund, job automation, job-hopping, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, lifestyle creep, Lyft, microaggression, multilevel marketing, non-fungible token, off-the-grid, passive income, passive investing, performance metric, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, Salesforce, side hustle, TaskRabbit, TED Talk, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, upwardly mobile, Vanguard fund, work culture , young professional

So if we had to work nights, weekends, and a few hours on vacation every now and then, we would, because our fatigue paled in comparison to the experiences of those who’d paved the road before us. We believed that no matter how uncomfortable or exhausting it became, being the only Black person in the room was a small price to pay if it meant shattering glass ceilings and representing our community to the fullest. But after years of corporate drudgery, answering every ping from work, and dealing with lingering workplace racism, we took a moment to look in the mirror with honesty. Who had we become? Spending two weeks eight thousand miles away from it all delivered the hard stop that we needed.


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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried

Albert Einstein, book value, British Empire, business intelligence, centralized clearinghouse, Charles Lindbergh, City Beautiful movement, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, disinformation, estate planning, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, Ida Tarbell, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, indoor plumbing, Livingstone, I presume, Nelson Mandela, new economy, plutocrats, refrigerator car, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, young professional

As the water kept rising and the winds gusted up to thirty-five miles an hour, Dave, ever the determined Fred Harvey man, insisted on going back out to keep a business appointment nearby. The client wasn’t there, so Dave optimistically rescheduled for an hour later and went back to the depot to call the Kansas City office. He sat in one of the second-floor offices overlooking the station’s large rectangular main room, waiting for the rain to stop pelting the domed glass ceiling. But before long, the water rose so high that the bay met the ocean, flooding the Fred Harvey lunchroom and forcing everyone upstairs. It crept higher for several hours, and then, at around 7:00 p.m., the wind began to wail, and the water suddenly rose four feet all at once. They were horrified to see the body of a drowned child among the debris floating through the station.

The only Amtrak train that stops here is the Chief, which arrives once a day in each direction and, even today, is still greeted by Indians trying to sell their crafts. The sunset view from the Chief as it heads west from Albuquerque is amazing—especially if you take it in from Amtrak’s special observation car, which features extra-high arching windows, a glass ceiling, and comfy swivel seats. (For kids immune to nature’s charms, the observation car also has TV screens playing children’s movies nonstop.) As the solar light show ends and the stars begin to shimmer, the Chief pulls in to Winslow, Arizona, just in time for a late supper—and we get our first glimpse of Mary Colter’s masterpiece, La Posada, the way it was meant to be seen: from trackside.


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Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly, Jost Zetzsche

airport security, Berlin Wall, Celtic Tiger, crowdsourcing, Donald Trump, Eyjafjallajökull, glass ceiling, machine translation, Machine translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." to Russian and back, randomized controlled trial, Ray Kurzweil, Skype, speech recognition, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, the market place

An older but related term that predated the Chinese space program was yuhangyuan or (space sailor). And which word does the Chinese government use for its official publications in English? Not taikonaut, but rather, astronaut.15 Flowery Words Back on planet Earth, we arrive at the Bellagio. From the opulent Chihuly glass ceiling in its lobby to the sumptuous fabrics in its guest rooms, the upscale Las Vegas hotel exudes elegance and luxury. The hotel prides itself on meticulous service and exceeding guest expectations. One in every four guests at the Bellagio comes from another country, predominantly Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and Spain.


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After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away by Doug Henwood

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, AOL-Time Warner, Asian financial crisis, barriers to entry, Benchmark Capital, book value, borderless world, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, business cycle, California energy crisis, capital controls, corporate governance, corporate raider, correlation coefficient, credit crunch, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, deskilling, digital divide, electricity market, emotional labour, ending welfare as we know it, feminist movement, fulfillment center, full employment, gender pay gap, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Gordon Gekko, government statistician, greed is good, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, income inequality, indoor plumbing, intangible asset, Internet Archive, job satisfaction, joint-stock company, Kevin Kelly, labor-force participation, Larry Ellison, liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, Mary Meeker, means of production, Michael Milken, minimum wage unemployment, Naomi Klein, new economy, occupational segregation, PalmPilot, pets.com, post-work, profit maximization, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, rewilding, Robert Gordon, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, statistical model, stock buybacks, structural adjustment programs, tech worker, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, total factor productivity, union organizing, War on Poverty, warehouse automation, women in the workforce, working poor, zero-sum game

Unemployment averaged 4.8% from 1950 to 1973; 6.9%, 1974-95; and 4.6% from 1996 through the first half of 2000. 4. Details on the CPS are available at <www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm>. 5. Note that the CBO/CBPP figures are after federal taxes; the Census figures are before taxes. 6. For a web overview of discrimination, see the report and background studies for the federal Glass Ceiling report, at <www.ilr.cornell.edu/GlassCeiling/>. 7. But within this subfield, the same gender structures replicate themselves: in the mid-1990s, women were 45% of assistant professors, 31% of associate, and 16% of full (Blau and Kahn 2000). All those figures are up substantially firom their levels a decade earlier, but still, there's a long way to go.


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Tough Sh*t: Life Advice From a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith

do what you love, glass ceiling, Kickstarter, McJob, Saturday Night Live, short selling, zero-sum game

None of those flicks ever made more than thirty million dollars at the box office, even with the brilliance of the Miramax marketing team behind them. So if you made ’em cheaply enough, you could enjoy a modicum of success—that modicum never surpassing thirty million. Then Judd Apatow and the Universal marketing department shattered the bromance glass ceiling with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad, taking similarly themed R-rated comedies to hundred-million-dollar grosses. The type of flick I’d popularized was suddenly in vogue; when I saw this happening, I figured I was finally gonna get a piece of that pie. So I pitched Zack and Miri Make a Porno to Harvey over breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel, and he green-lighted it then and there on the title alone.


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5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose by Nik Halik, Garrett B. Gunderson

Airbnb, bitcoin, Buckminster Fuller, business process, clean water, collaborative consumption, cryptocurrency, delayed gratification, diversified portfolio, do what you love, drop ship, en.wikipedia.org, estate planning, Ethereum, fear of failure, fiat currency, financial independence, gamification, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, Home mortgage interest deduction, independent contractor, initial coin offering, Isaac Newton, Kaizen: continuous improvement, litecoin, low interest rates, Lyft, market fundamentalism, microcredit, minimum viable product, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, multilevel marketing, Nelson Mandela, passive income, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer rental, planned obsolescence, Ponzi scheme, quantitative easing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, selling pickaxes during a gold rush, sharing economy, side project, Skype, solopreneur, subscription business, TaskRabbit, TED Talk, traveling salesman, uber lyft

You must create it. You control your own destiny. You could wait until you get disrupted by your boss or the economy, or you can consciously disrupt yourself, get out of the status-quo rut, and build your 5 Day Weekend. As a 5 Day Weekender, you reinvent yourself and break through your financial glass ceiling. You generate your own income doing what you love. You don’t hand your money over to someone else to manage, where your risk is high and you have little or no control. Rather, you stay in control of your own money to reduce your risk and dramatically increase your cash flow and profitability. Instead of accumulating over long periods of time, you leverage and utilize to create exponentially greater returns.


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Alan Partridge: Nomad: Nomad by Alan Partridge

Apollo 11, cuban missile crisis, glass ceiling, Neil Armstrong, Neil Kinnock, rolodex, Skype, TED Talk, University of East Anglia

And while no shoot would ever be allowed to take place without a rigorous risk assessment that reduces the chances of anything going wrong to more or less zero, I’ve no doubt the shows appear extremely impressive, especially to the children at whom they are aimed. But despite the attraction of having a surname that sounds like a knitted garment worn by a grandma, Back-shawl’s core audience can only take him so far. Marooned in the no man’s land between Bear Grylls and Terry Nutkins, his career has hit a glass ceiling. Finding out that Backshall is due to arrive any minute, I decide to leave. Steve’s a young fella trying to make his way in broadcasting, and even though it’s not something that particularly bothers me, I can imagine how important the adulation of these people is to his self-esteem. The last thing he needs is an 800-pound gorilla stealing his thunder.


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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, fear of failure, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, impulse control, junk bonds, Maui Hawaii, messenger bag, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, zero-sum game

After I emerged into Union Station, with its vaulted ceilings and black-and-white marble floors, I passed a vendor who had set up an easel with buttons for sale: my name in a red circle with a red slash through it, “DEPORT TRUMP,” “DUMP TRUMP,” and “TRUMP IS A WITCH.” I put on my sunglasses and picked up my pace. I took a cab to the Trump International Hotel, which was comping my family for one night. After checking in, I walked through the atrium and looked up at the glass ceiling and the blue sky beyond. The three-tiered crystal chandeliers that hung from the central beam of interconnected girders arching overhead cast a soft light. On one side, armchairs, settees, and couches—royal blue, robin’s-egg blue, ivory—were arranged in small groups; on the other, tables and chairs circled a large bar where I was later scheduled to meet my brother.


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Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global by Rebecca Fannin

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Adam Neumann (WeWork), Airbnb, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Benchmark Capital, Big Tech, bike sharing, blockchain, call centre, cashless society, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean tech, cloud computing, computer vision, connected car, corporate governance, cryptocurrency, data is the new oil, data science, deep learning, Deng Xiaoping, Didi Chuxing, digital map, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, El Camino Real, electricity market, Elon Musk, fake news, family office, fear of failure, fulfillment center, glass ceiling, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, income inequality, industrial robot, information security, Internet of things, invention of movable type, Jeff Bezos, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary Meeker, megacity, Menlo Park, money market fund, Network effects, new economy, peer-to-peer lending, personalized medicine, Peter Thiel, QR code, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Sand Hill Road, self-driving car, sharing economy, Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, smart cities, smart transportation, Snapchat, social graph, SoftBank, software as a service, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, speech recognition, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, supply-chain management, tech billionaire, TechCrunch disrupt, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, urban planning, Vision Fund, warehouse automation, WeWork, winner-take-all economy, Y Combinator, young professional

A self-professed geek, she is an electrical engineer by training and a former fighter jet engineer who moved to Shanghai from Singapore and played a major role in setting up GGV Capital in Shanghai. I met her a few years before that, when she was starting to look at China venture while a VP at Japanese investment firm JAFCO Asia. She’s famously broken through the glass ceiling of women in venture, on the Forbes list of top venture investors since 2012 and crushing it in 2015 within the top 10 ranks and in 2019 in nineteenth place. With her passion for cutting-edge technologies, she’s invested in drone startup EHang and its dream of a flying taxi, and in AI language learning bot Liulishuo, also known as LingoChamp, which collected $72 million in an IPO on the NYSE in 2018.


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The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution Is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt

"World Economic Forum" Davos, agricultural Revolution, Anthropocene, Black Lives Matter, Black Swan, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, British Empire, carbon footprint, carbon tax, coronavirus, COVID-19, dark matter, digital nomad, Donald Trump, George Floyd, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Joi Ito, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, labour market flexibility, Les Trente Glorieuses, out of africa, phenotype, place-making, Ponzi scheme, pre–internet, QAnon, Ray Kurzweil, remote working, Richard Feynman, road to serfdom, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social distancing, sustainable-tourism, technological solutionism, technoutopianism, Yogi Berra, young professional

Elwood, J., Andreotti, V., and Stein, S. Towards Braiding. Musagetes (2019). Esteva, G., Babones, S., and Babcicky, P. The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto. Policy Press (2013). Freud, S. Civilization and its Discontents. Translated by James Strachey. Penguin (2004). Friedman, S. The Glass Ceiling: Why It Pays To Be Privileged. Policy Press (2019). Furet, F. The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Deborah Furet. University of Chicago Press (1999). Gogol, N. V. Revizor (The Government Inspector). Translated by William Harrison. Blackwell (1984).


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Trading in the Zone: Master the Market With Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude by Mark J. Douglas

Albert Einstein, buy and hold, Elliott wave, glass ceiling, pattern recognition, zero-sum game

The way these subconscious self-sabotaging beliefs manifest themselves in our trading is usually in the form of lapses in focus or concentration, resulting in any number of trading errors, like putting in a buy for a sell or vice versa, or allowing yourself to give in to distracting thoughts that compel you to leave the screen, only to find out when you return that you missed the big trade of the day. I’ve worked with many traders who achieved various levels of consistent success, but found they just couldn’t break through certain thresholds in acquiring equity. They discovered an invisible but very real barrier similar to the proverbial glass ceiling that many women executives experience in the corporate world. Every time these traders hit the barrier, they experienced a significant draw down, regardless of the market conditions. However, when asked about what happened, they typically blamed their sudden run of bad luck on just that—luck or the vagaries of the market.


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How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World by Dambisa Moyo

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Airbnb, algorithmic trading, Amazon Web Services, AOL-Time Warner, asset allocation, barriers to entry, Ben Horowitz, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, Boeing 737 MAX, Bretton Woods, business cycle, business process, buy and hold, call centre, capital controls, carbon footprint, collapse of Lehman Brothers, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, creative destruction, cryptocurrency, deglobalization, don't be evil, Donald Trump, fake news, financial engineering, gender pay gap, geopolitical risk, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, global pandemic, global supply chain, hiring and firing, income inequality, index fund, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jeff Bezos, knowledge economy, labor-force participation, long term incentive plan, low interest rates, Lyft, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, multilevel marketing, Network effects, new economy, old-boy network, Pareto efficiency, passive investing, Pershing Square Capital Management, proprietary trading, remote working, Ronald Coase, Savings and loan crisis, search costs, shareholder value, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, SoftBank, sovereign wealth fund, surveillance capitalism, The Nature of the Firm, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, trade route, Travis Kalanick, uber lyft, Vanguard fund, Washington Consensus, WeWork, women in the workforce, work culture

Prominent examples include European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde, former US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, IMF head Kristalina Georgieva, long-term German chancellor Angela Merkel, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, and numerous other female heads of state who have come and gone in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. In academia, the NGO world, and business sectors such as technology (old and new), automobiles, industrials, consumer goods, and even that bastion of masculinity, mining, the glass ceiling, while not shattered, is certainly cracked. Women have not just ascended into the C-suite, but in many cases have acquired the coveted CEO role. This, in turn, means that the pool from which future boards can draw has expanded immensely. In fact, the number of women CEOs in the Fortune 500 has been rising steadily since 1998, when Jill Barad of Mattel and Marion Sandler, co-CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation, were the only female chiefs listed.


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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

carbon footprint, glass ceiling, invisible hand, Lao Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Schrödinger's Cat, Stephen Fry, TED Talk, you are the product

She’d had a fifty-three-year-old boss with halitosis touch her leg under a table and text her a photo of his penis. She’d had colleagues who lied about her, and colleagues who loved her, and (mainly) colleagues who were entirely indifferent. In many lives she chose not to work and in some she didn’t choose not to work but still couldn’t find any. In some lives she smashed through the glass ceiling and in some she just polished it. She had been excessively over- and under-qualified. She had slept brilliantly and terribly. In some lives she was on anti-depressants and in others she didn’t even take ibuprofen for a headache. In some lives she was a physically healthy hypochondriac and in some a seriously ill hypochondriac and in most she wasn’t a hypochondriac at all.


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How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar, Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar

agricultural Revolution, Albert Michelson, Donner party, Fellow of the Royal Society, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, Isaac Newton, mass immigration, Nash equilibrium, nuclear winter, out of africa, pattern recognition, Richard Feynman, social intelligence, Steven Pinker, theory of mind, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Malthus, trolley problem, University of East Anglia, upwardly mobile

Why then, and not earlier or later? And why only to our species, and not to any others? If there really is something transcen-dentally special about religion, it would seem to me an odd coincidence that it should appear just at the point both where the cognitive capacities to support it first evolve and where we find the glass ceiling in group size that needs both of these phenomena to break through. That said, true or false, religion does seem to work, at least on the intimate social scale. It does have benefits for the individual. But its real benefits seem to be in creating closely knit communities. It is only when religion is taken over by the state and becomes large-scale that problems arise.


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Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win by Sachin Khajuria

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, bank run, barriers to entry, Big Tech, blockchain, business cycle, buy and hold, carried interest, COVID-19, credit crunch, data science, decarbonisation, disintermediation, diversification, East Village, financial engineering, gig economy, glass ceiling, high net worth, hiring and firing, impact investing, index fund, junk bonds, Kickstarter, low interest rates, mass affluent, moral hazard, passive investing, race to the bottom, random walk, risk/return, rolodex, Rubik’s Cube, Silicon Valley, sovereign wealth fund, two and twenty, Vanguard fund, zero-sum game

The firm’s partnership was aghast at his obstinance, and within twelve weeks, all of Madison Stone’s brightest stars had left to join rivals or start their own firms. They didn’t mind the lengthy non-compete clauses or the temporary hit on their compensation—each partner was worth over a hundred million dollars. They resented the glass ceiling, and they wanted out. The talent crater widened, as top investment professionals at competing firms, repelled by the negative internal dynamics at Madison Stone, declined headhunters’ calls to consider moving there. Inevitably, the funds’ investment performance dropped markedly. As the prognosis worsened, the funds’ investors invoked an emergency clause in the fund agreements to call a vote to replace Madison Stone as the manager of their money, citing its inability to function effectively, and in a late-night emergency session overseen by counsel, the investors agreed to remove the firm once a more suitable active asset manager could be found to manage the assets already acquired by the firm’s funds (and eventually to sell them off for a profit, a situation known as a “run-off” of the portfolio).


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Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story by Rachel Clarke

clockwatching, David Attenborough, Donald Trump, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, imposter syndrome, invisible hand, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, Nelson Mandela, pattern recognition, post-truth, profit motive, sensible shoes, Snapchat, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

While 57 per cent of junior doctors are women, only 30 per cent of surgical trainees are female, for example, and a mere 11 per cent of consultant surgeons are women.28 Though it takes a special kind of doctor to argue these days that women are temperamentally inferior to men, I have frequently heard colleagues explain away the existence of a glass ceiling in medicine as the result of women choosing to prioritise having a family above their career, rather than being the product of any structural or societal inequality. If, so the argument goes, we will insist on taking time out for maternity leave or to work part-time in order to be with our children, then our relegation to lesser roles within the profession is only to be expected.


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A Book for Her by Bridget Christie

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Boris Johnson, British Empire, carbon footprint, clean water, Costa Concordia, David Attenborough, feminist movement, financial independence, glass ceiling, housing crisis, Isaac Newton, obamacare, Rubik’s Cube, Russell Brand, sexual politics, TED Talk

In fact, Cameron, who is very unpopular with women voters – surprisingly, given the above – appointed a woman to advise him on women’s issues. Why he couldn’t just ask his wife Samantha is beyond me. If my fictional husband came home and told me he was employing a woman to advise him on women, I would absolutely hit the glass ceiling. But I haven’t ended the patriarchy all by myself, not entirely. I nearly have, but not quite. I have had a little bit of help along the way, and while I’m very pleased these other brave women are being recognised, we need to keep their achievements in perspective. It’s all very well Malala Yousafzai, as previously mentioned, speaking out about a girl’s right to an education, and becoming the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but let’s not forget, I was the oldest woman ever to win two Chortle Awards in one year.


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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco by Matthew Richard Poole

Bay Area Rapid Transit, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Day of the Dead, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, game design, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, Loma Prieta earthquake, Maui Hawaii, old-boy network, pez dispenser, San Francisco homelessness, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Torches of Freedom, upwardly mobile

The hotel’s most spectacular attributes remain the regal lobby and the Garden Court, a San Francisco landmark that has been restored to its original 1909 grandeur. A double row of massive Italian-marble Ionic columns flank the court, and 10 huge chandeliers dangle above. The real heart-stopper, however, is the 80,000-pane stained-glass ceiling (good special effects made Mike Douglas look like he fell through it in the movie The Game). Meanwhile, as long as you’re spending some money, consider the Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, where Eugene and Carlotta O’Neill moved from the Fairmont after they left Tao House in Danville, some 30 miles away.


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The Facebook era: tapping online social networks to build better products, reach new audiences, and sell more stuff by Clara Shih

Benchmark Capital, business process, call centre, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, commoditize, conceptual framework, corporate governance, crowdsourcing, glass ceiling, jimmy wales, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Metcalfe’s law, Network effects, pets.com, pre–internet, rolodex, Salesforce, Savings and loan crisis, semantic web, sentiment analysis, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, social graph, social web, software as a service, tacit knowledge, Tony Hsieh, web application

Also, Carlye Adler, Paul Merage and the Foundation for the American Dream, Stephane Nakib, Denis Pombriant, Dan Chao, Kingsley Joseph, Ken Mah, Travis Bryant, Nathaniel Dean, Eric Silverberg, Dan Pastor, and Matt Gidney. My friend Ramit Sethi, who is an entrepreneur, blogger, and one of the most thoughtful and creative consumer marketers I know. And last, but certainly not least, my grandmother Lau Kim Ping, who has spent her life breaking glass ceilings, inventing her own rules, and making sure that I do the same. From the Library of Kerri Ross xiv Th e Fa ce b o o k E ra About the Author Clara Shih is the creator of Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce), the first business application on Facebook. In addition, Clara is the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com’s online marketplace for business Software-as-a-service applications built by third-party developers and ISVs.


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1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall by Peter Millar

anti-communist, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, glass ceiling, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, kremlinology, Marshall McLuhan, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Prenzlauer Berg, pre–internet, QWERTY keyboard, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Sinatra Doctrine, urban sprawl, working-age population

Between the affluence of ‘the West’ and the poverty of ‘the Third World’, was a second world, rarely referred to as such. Even those who lived there dared not speak its name: a world of making do, getting by, of living with the shadow of the past, a darkness in the present and little hope for the future. A world that shattered like a glass ceiling in those chaotic days of the autumn of 1989. I have tried also to answer at least in part one of those questions journalists are so often asked: how do you get the news? And another one that should be asked more often: what do you do with it when you get it? This is a short ride on a rollercoaster of a profession that many people wish they could get into and a good many others wish they could get out of.


Toast by Stross, Charles

anthropic principle, Buckminster Fuller, cosmological principle, dark matter, disinformation, double helix, Ernest Rutherford, Extropian, Fairchild Semiconductor, flag carrier, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Free Software Foundation, Future Shock, Gary Kildall, glass ceiling, gravity well, Great Leap Forward, Hans Moravec, Higgs boson, hydroponic farming, It's morning again in America, junk bonds, Khyber Pass, launch on warning, Mars Rover, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Neil Armstrong, NP-complete, oil shale / tar sands, peak oil, performance metric, phenotype, plutocrats, punch-card reader, Recombinant DNA, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, slashdot, speech recognition, strong AI, traveling salesman, Turing test, urban renewal, Vernor Vinge, Whole Earth Review, Y2K

It wouldn’t fool a human detective or a mature deity, but it might confuse an embryonic god that had not yet reached full omniscience, or internalized all that it meant to be human. The shop was just about open. I had two hours to kill, so I bought a couple of newspapers and headed for the deli store, inside an ornate lump of Victorian architecture that squatted like a vagrant beneath the grimy glass ceiling of the station. The papers made for depressing reading; the idiots were at it again. I’ve worked in a variety of world lines and seen a range of histories, and many of them were far worse than this one—at least these people had made it past the twentieth century without nuking themselves until they glowed in the dark, exterminating everyone with white (or black, or brown, or blue) skin, or building a global panopticon theocracy.


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Fodor's Madrid and Side Trips by Fodor's

Atahualpa, call centre, Francisco Pizarro, glass ceiling, Isaac Newton, low cost airline, Pepto Bismol, traffic fines, young professional

Cánovas del Castillo 4, Retiro | 28014 | 91/330–2400 | www.nh-hoteles.es | 114 rooms, 5 suites | In-room: safe, Wi-Fi. In-hotel: restaurant | AE, DC, MC, V | Station: Banco de España Jardín de Recoletos. $$$ | This apartment hotel offers great value on a quiet street close to Plaza Colón and upmarket Calle Serrano. The large lobby has marble floors and a stained-glass ceiling and adjoins a café, restaurant, and the hotel’s restful private garden. The large rooms, with light wood trim and beige-and-yellow furnishings, include sitting and dining areas. “Superior” rooms and suites have hydromassage baths and large terraces. Book well in advance. Pros: spacious rooms with kitchens; good for families.


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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

"World Economic Forum" Davos, assortative mating, behavioural economics, Cass Sunstein, classic study, confounding variable, credit crunch, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, Drosophila, epigenetics, experimental economics, gender pay gap, George Akerlof, glass ceiling, helicopter parent, Jeremy Corbyn, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, phenotype, publication bias, risk tolerance, seminal paper

Sexual selection hasn’t locked such roles into sex-linked genes and hormones, but allows for individuals to be profoundly influenced by their social, material, physical, (and in our own case) economic, cultural, and political circumstances. This is important because, as we saw in the Introduction, the implications of the Testosterone Rex view of the effects of sexual selection extend well beyond the bedroom. Ultimately, that old tale claims that it isn’t just sexism and discrimination that sustains the glass ceiling—not completely. At the core of this inequality are the whisperings of evolution. To men, it murmurs That’s right … keep going, son. I know it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that spending eighty hours a week in a science lab becoming increasingly pale and weedy, and possibly developing rickets, will make you more attractive to scores of young, beautiful, fertile women, but trust me on this.


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Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits by Kevin Roose

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Basel III, Bear Stearns, Carl Icahn, cognitive dissonance, collateralized debt obligation, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, deal flow, discounted cash flows, Donald Trump, East Village, eat what you kill, eurozone crisis, financial engineering, fixed income, forward guidance, glass ceiling, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, hedonic treadmill, information security, Jane Street, jitney, junk bonds, Kevin Roose, knowledge worker, Michael Milken, new economy, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, plutocrats, proprietary trading, Robert Shiller, selection bias, shareholder value, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Jobs, tail risk, The Predators' Ball, too big to fail, two and twenty, urban planning, We are the 99%, work culture , young professional

Fisher, the author of Wall Street Women, the number of women working in finance fell by 2.6 percent between 2000 and 2010, while the number of men in finance grew by 9.6 percent in the same period. Fisher blames the loss of female bodies, in part, on the crisis. “Many believed that a woman from their generation was poised to break through the ultimate glass ceiling in finance and become a CEO,” she wrote. “But instead of crashing triumphantly through the penultimate gendered boundary, these women, like the economy writ larger, were in freefall.” Of course, compared to women of a previous generation, today’s Wall Street women have made significant progress.


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Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner

23andMe, 4chan, Airbnb, anti-communist, anti-globalists, augmented reality, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bellingcat, Big Tech, bitcoin, blockchain, Boris Johnson, Cambridge Analytica, citizen journalism, cognitive dissonance, Comet Ping Pong, crisis actor, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, deepfake, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dunning–Kruger effect, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, feminist movement, game design, gamification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Greta Thunberg, information security, job satisfaction, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, Network effects, off grid, OpenAI, Overton Window, pattern recognition, pre–internet, QAnon, RAND corporation, ransomware, rising living standards, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, SQL injection, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Transnistria, WikiLeaks, zero day

Step 2:Exposing the hypocrisy, lunacy and lies of feminism and liberalism Give her assignments such as listing ‘REAL differences between men and women’ and researching ‘Cultural Marxism’, ‘The Frankfurt School’ and ‘11-Step Plan’. According to DeAnna Lorraine, all three waves of feminism – the battle for voting rights in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the fight for equal legal and social rights in the 1960s and 1970s, and the continued efforts in the 1990s to break through the glass ceiling and challenge biased gender perceptions in the media – are part of a plan of cultural subversion. The Frankfurt School, she explains, was plotting to destroy society with the so-called 11-Step Plan, which included steps such as ‘the creation of racism offences’, ‘the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children’, ‘huge immigration to destroy identity’, ‘the promotion of excessive drinking’ and the ‘emptying of churches’.


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The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam

Anthropocene, Black Lives Matter, cryptocurrency, DeepMind, driverless car, family office, glass ceiling, Greta Thunberg, high net worth, index card, lockdown, microdosing, nudge theory, post-truth, Rubik’s Cube, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Stanford marshmallow experiment, stealth mode startup, TED Talk, the High Line, TikTok

The woman in the middle, Manishala Brown, has long braids falling down over her shoulders and enormous boots on her feet. I love her immediately. She is flanked by two white women, both sporting the kind of calm confidence and grooming that comes from being older, wiser, and richer than everyone else in the room. “Each of our panelists has had enormous success in crashing through the glass ceiling. They’ve started companies, taken companies public, sat on boards, and seen the whole funding cycle through from seed to IPO. What would you tell your younger selves about the challenges and opportunities of being a female founder?” The woman on the left, Mary McGreen, speaks first. “I would tell her to relax and have more fun,” she says, and the audience titters.


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Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum

Asian financial crisis, call centre, currency manipulation / currency intervention, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, family office, glass ceiling, Gordon Gekko, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, high-speed rail, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, land reform, military-industrial complex, old-boy network, pirate software, plutocrats, race to the bottom, rolodex, Silicon Valley, SoftBank, South China Sea, special economic zone, walking around money, WikiLeaks

Having arrived in the United States immediately after the June 4 crackdown in China, as a student from Greater China I was eligible, thanks to an Executive Order signed by President George H. W. Bush, for a green card. I passed on the chance. I felt too different in America and suspected I’d hit a glass ceiling if I remained. Frat culture permeated the business world, and from those parties I’d attended I sensed that I’d have little traction with my American bosses and peers. After four years at Wisconsin, I graduated in May of 1993 and flew home. My experience in the United States changed me profoundly.


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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream by Alissa Quart

2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carried interest, coronavirus, COVID-19, critical race theory, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Graeber, defund the police, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, financial independence, fixed income, George Floyd, gig economy, glass ceiling, high net worth, housing justice, hustle culture, illegal immigration, impact investing, income inequality, independent contractor, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, longitudinal study, loss aversion, Lyft, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, meta-analysis, microaggression, Milgram experiment, minimum wage unemployment, multilevel marketing, obamacare, Overton Window, payday loans, post-work, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Scientific racism, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Snapchat, social distancing, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech worker, TED Talk, Travis Kalanick, trickle-down economics, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, W. E. B. Du Bois, wealth creators, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration

individual effort in success: In a similar vein, Ivanka Trump’s “motivational quotes” during her father’s presidential tenure included “If you are content, that’s probably not good enough,” faulting women for not being able to surmount obstacles, as if they were ne’er-do-wells creating roadblocks for themselves, the glass ceiling all in their heads. feminist Sheryl Sandberg puts it in her 2013 bestseller Lean In: Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (New York: Knopf, 2013). a cute neologism coined by the founder of the online women’s retailer Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso: Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS (New York: Portfolio, 2014).


Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power by Rose Hackman

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, basic income, behavioural economics, Black Lives Matter, cognitive load, collective bargaining, coronavirus, COVID-19, dark triade / dark tetrad, David Graeber, demand response, do what you love, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, equal pay for equal work, European colonialism, Ferguson, Missouri, financial independence, game design, glass ceiling, immigration reform, invisible hand, job automation, lockdown, mass incarceration, medical bankruptcy, meta-analysis, Nelson Mandela, performance metric, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social distancing, TED Talk, The Great Resignation, TikTok, transatlantic slave trade, universal basic income, W. E. B. Du Bois, wages for housework, women in the workforce, working poor, zero-sum game

Giles, “Gender and Psychological Essentialism,” Enfance; Psychologie, Pedagogie, Neuropsychiatrie, Sociologie 58, no. 3 (July 2006): 293–310.   4.  Gina Rippon, The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain (London: The Bodley Head, 2019).   5.  Gina Rippon, “The Trouble with Girls? Gina Rippon Asks Why Plastic Brains Aren’t Breaking Through Glass Ceilings,” The Psychologist 29 (December 2016): 918–23, https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/december-2016/trouble-girls.   6.  Smaller-scale academic studies have sought to measure emotional labor as a stand-alone category and have found that emotional labor is done more by women, as an explicit expression of their gender.


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Frommer's Washington State by Karl Samson

airport security, British Empire, California gold rush, centre right, company town, flying shuttle, Frank Gehry, glass ceiling, global village, Great Leap Forward, land bank, machine readable, place-making, sustainable-tourism, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, transcontinental railway, white picket fence

Visitor Information Visitor information on Seattle and the surrounding area is available by contacting Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau Seattle Visitor Center & Concierge Services, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seventh Avenue and Pike Street, main level (& 206/461-5888; www.visitseattle.org). To find it, walk up Pike Street to the convention center (the street is covered by a huge arched glass ceiling in front of the convention center). 60 08_607510-ch05.indd 6008_607510-ch05.indd 60 9/28/10 8:41 PM9/28/10 8:41 PM City Layout 5 SEATTLE Orientation Although downtown Seattle is fairly compact and can easily be navigated on foot, finding your way by car can be frustrating. Traffic, especially during rush hour, can be a nightmare.

The lobby, with its bar, billiard table, and travel-themed Art Deco furnishings, feels like it could be in Singapore or Nairobi; you half expect Humphrey Bogart to be sipping a gin and tonic in the corner. Guest rooms are decorated in keeping with the historical, adventure-travel theme. Be sure to sneak a peek inside the Northern Lights Dome Room, a grand hall with original frescoes, a stained-glass ceiling, and lots of ornate plasterwork and gilding. Doubletree Arctic Club Hotel Best Western Pioneer Square Hotel This hotel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is right in the heart of the Pioneer Square historic district, Seattle’s historic art gallery and nightlife neighborhood.


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Who Are We—And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge

affirmative action, Berlin Wall, British Empire, call centre, David Brooks, equal pay for equal work, F. W. de Klerk, failed state, feminist movement, financial independence, gentrification, glass ceiling, global village, illegal immigration, inflation targeting, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, liberal capitalism, low interest rates, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, moral panic, phenotype, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Skype, Steven Levy, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wolfgang Streeck, World Values Survey

Their task was to harness the historic resonance of their candidacies while claiming that the very thing they signified—that one was black and the other female—would not make a big difference. Asked about the significance of her gender, Clinton sometimes neutralized the question: “I couldn’t run as anything other than a woman”; at other times embraced it: “I’m proud to be running as a woman and I’m excited that I may be able to finally break the hardest of glass ceilings”; and occasionally denied its relevance altogether: “Obviously, I’m not running because I’m a woman; I trust the American people to make a decision not about me or my gender but about what is best for you and your families.” During his speech at the Democratic convention in 2004, Obama started by stressing his race and his mixed-race heritage, albeit in more coded fashion.


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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans

4chan, Ada Lovelace, air gap, Albert Einstein, Bletchley Park, British Empire, Charles Babbage, colonial rule, Colossal Cave Adventure, computer age, crowdsourcing, D. B. Cooper, dark matter, dematerialisation, Doomsday Book, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Hofstadter, East Village, Edward Charles Pickering, game design, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Haight Ashbury, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, Honoré de Balzac, Howard Rheingold, HyperCard, hypertext link, index card, information retrieval, Internet Archive, Jacquard loom, John von Neumann, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, junk bonds, knowledge worker, Leonard Kleinrock, machine readable, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Mondo 2000, Mother of all demos, Network effects, old-boy network, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, packet switching, PalmPilot, pets.com, rent control, RFC: Request For Comment, rolodex, San Francisco homelessness, semantic web, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, South of Market, San Francisco, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, subscription business, tech worker, technoutopianism, Ted Nelson, telepresence, The Soul of a New Machine, Wayback Machine, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, Y2K

And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.” With our twenty-first-century brains, we all have a shot at being as clever as Ada Lovelace, the Harvard computers, or a wartime ballistics calculator at Penn. But there’s only so far we can reach before we hit the ultimate threshold—the glass ceiling over all humanity. My current machine, a top-of-the-line slice of MacBook Pro, will be obsolete by the time these words make it to ink. The machine code that Grace Hopper dreamed would someday write itself is now the engine that powers the world. It has allowed me to find the women we’ll meet in this book, to e-mail them out of the blue, to wave hello to their ever-less-pixelated faces, and to make plans ending with me in their living rooms, looking at manuals, looking at photos, drinking green tea.


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All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work by Joanna Biggs

Anton Chekhov, bank run, banking crisis, Bullingdon Club, call centre, Chelsea Manning, credit crunch, David Graeber, Desert Island Discs, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, Erik Brynjolfsson, financial independence, future of work, G4S, glass ceiling, industrial robot, job automation, land reform, low skilled workers, mittelstand, Northern Rock, payday loans, Right to Buy, scientific management, Second Machine Age, Sheryl Sandberg, six sigma, Steve Jobs, trickle-down economics, unpaid internship, wages for housework, Wall-E

For too long women had campaigned for inching practical measures – ‘day care, equal pay, free laundromats’ as Federici puts it – when what was needed was an attack on ‘our female role at the roots’ by making women’s work visible to capital by asking for money for it. With the British writer Selma James, who I’d seen trailed by a black and a white dog at the ECP’s offices when I went to interview Ina, Federici set up the Wages for Housework Campaign, which continues to this day. Instead of agitating for more waged labour, to put another crack in the glass ceiling and occupy another board seat, women would redefine what work is: Why is writing an email work and feeding a baby not work? Friedan and Wages for Housework came up with two different solutions to the problem, but they agreed on its nature. It wasn’t the cooking and cleaning; it was the ‘smiling and fucking’ – the emotional labour service work also calls for – as well as the pretence that it was offered happily that made the work unbearable.


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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood

airport security, Alan Greenspan, Apollo 13, British Empire, call centre, clean water, corporate social responsibility, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, fear of failure, glass ceiling, high net worth, income per capita, Jeff Bezos, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Marc Andreessen, microcredit, Own Your Own Home, random walk, rolodex, Salesforce, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Ballmer

Her preferred holiday was more Four Seasons than Third World. A six-foot, blue-eyed blonde from rural Kansas, Sophie reveled in our glamorous expatriate lifestyle. In her words, she had escaped the rural Midwest and embraced the world. After too long being in junior roles, she had busted through the glass ceiling and now ran the China operations for an international advertising agency. I was proud of her. But her focus on career was defining most of our existence. When we’d fallen in love, much of our time was spent hiking, discussing great books, exploring Australia, reading, and making bold and exotic travel plans.


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The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community by Marc J. Dunkelman

Abraham Maslow, adjacent possible, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, assortative mating, Berlin Wall, big-box store, blue-collar work, Bretton Woods, Broken windows theory, business cycle, call centre, clean water, company town, cuban missile crisis, dark matter, David Brooks, delayed gratification, different worldview, double helix, Downton Abbey, Dunbar number, Edward Jenner, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Filter Bubble, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, George Santayana, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, global supply chain, global village, helicopter parent, if you build it, they will come, impulse control, income inequality, invention of movable type, Jane Jacobs, Khyber Pass, Lewis Mumford, Louis Pasteur, Marshall McLuhan, McMansion, Nate Silver, obamacare, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, Peter Thiel, post-industrial society, Richard Florida, rolodex, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, social intelligence, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, telemarketer, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the medium is the message, the strength of weak ties, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, urban decay, urban planning, Walter Mischel, War on Poverty, women in the workforce, World Values Survey, zero-sum game

As he tells it, when he was a boy, women working outside the home—many of whom would have thrived, as they do today, in diverse fields—were largely limited to positions as teachers, nurses, and secretaries. And that was, he points out, a real boon for the students, patients, and bosses who might otherwise have been taught, cared for, and served by a less talented pool of applicants.51 Today, while glass ceilings still exist, opportunities for women to work outside the home have expanded dramatically.52 Between 1960 and the mid-1990s, the percentage of working-age American women engaged in work outside the home grew from roughly one-third to 70 percent.53 That change—an indelibly Third Wave phenomenon—has become a broadly accepted norm of American life.


I Love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, business climate, corporate governance, East Village, fixed income, glass ceiling, income inequality, Paul Samuelson, Ronald Reagan, short selling, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, six sigma, VA Linux, Y2K, zero-sum game

In my years around the New York Stock Exchange, first as the holder of two seats on the exchange and then as a member of the Specialty Firms Advisory Committee, I’d become friendly with Dick Grasso, who became president of the exchange in 1988. Dick had started as an $82-a-week unionized clerk at the NYSE in 1968 and worked his way up the ranks to a mighty $203-a-week position before being elected to leadership. In the past, a talented guy like Dick would have bumped his head on the exchange’s glass ceiling and been left to find work elsewhere. Also in the past, the leaders of the NYSE had all been big cheeses: guys like Mil Batten, who’d retired as the head of J. C. Penney; Bill Donaldson, who’d co-founded the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette securities firm and been an undersecretary of state in the Nixon administration; and Jim Needham, who’d been an SEC commissioner.


We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, barriers to entry, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, centre right, cognitive dissonance, continuation of politics by other means, currency peg, disinformation, Donald Trump, fake news, feminist movement, financial independence, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gender pay gap, gentrification, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, mass immigration, moral panic, Nate Silver, obamacare, old-boy network, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Overton Window, payday loans, planetary scale, Ponzi scheme, public intellectual, race to the bottom, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, sexual politics, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Thomas L Friedman, transatlantic slave trade

For every study that finds increasing diversity results in performance declines, there are multiple other studies that find increasing diversity has no negative performance effects, and not uncommonly, significant performance benefits.’ Assuming that the mere admission of a woman into a certain profession ends her competitive disadvantage is mistaking ‘access’ for ‘arrival’; it does not take into account all the myriad ways that an individual woman is undermined, and how they stretch into a lattice that becomes a glass ceiling. It is what journalist Lucinda Franks calls ‘gender degradation’ and the psychologist Virginia Valian calls ‘the accumulation of disadvantage’. Franks, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, reappraised her experience in the light of the #MeToo movement, saying: ‘we, the earliest female newswomen, were tough, ambitious, even cocky about our talent, but over the years, our self-confidence was often irreparably harmed.


Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie

"Susan Fowler" uber, "World Economic Forum" Davos, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Andy Rubin, Apollo 11, Apple II, barriers to entry, Bear Stearns, Benchmark Capital, blockchain, Bob Noyce, call centre, cloud computing, credit crunch, deal flow, disruptive innovation, Elon Musk, equal pay for equal work, Fairchild Semiconductor, fear of failure, game design, Gary Kildall, glass ceiling, hiring and firing, information security, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Louis Pasteur, Lyft, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Menlo Park, Mitch Kapor, new economy, PageRank, peer-to-peer, pets.com, phenotype, place-making, private spaceflight, retail therapy, ROLM, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Salesforce, Sand Hill Road, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, software as a service, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Wozniak, Susan Wojcicki, TaskRabbit, Teledyne, Tim Cook: Apple, Timothy McVeigh, Travis Kalanick, uber lyft, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, urban decay, UUNET, web application, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, women in the workforce

She knew the statistics: Women who become chief executives divorced at a higher rate than men; winning a best actress Oscar portended a divorce, while winning best actor did not; and winning elections for women increased subsequent divorce rates. One female CEO she knew hinted that it was the spouses at home who often helped install the glass ceiling at work. MJ had felt supported by her husband as a venture capitalist but unsupported at home. She believed that if Bill had supported her more as a person, she could have stayed at work. To be sure, Bill had never asked her to cut back at work; he was proud they were a two-VC family.


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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, autism spectrum disorder, deplatforming, en.wikipedia.org, false memory syndrome, Frances Oldham Kelsey, glass ceiling, helicopter parent, Jeff Bezos, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, scientific mainstream, Skype, social contagion, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, TikTok, unpaid internship

It’s a dumb habit, thoughtless and base. It reflects an unflattering insecurity we shouldn’t indulge. The jealousy at its heart suggests that either we believe women aren’t truly capable, or they have somehow been duped, made victims by a “system” that, generation after generation, locks us out and shuts us in with so many glass ceilings and walls. It’s an exhausting set of untruths. Worst of all, girls are listening. They don’t know it’s all tongue-in-cheek. They don’t realize we’re merely garnering support for women’s causes, bargaining with the culture for better jobs and greater pay. They don’t know we’re merely whipping the pols.


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Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community by Karen T. Litfin

active transport: walking or cycling, agricultural Revolution, Anthropocene, back-to-the-land, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, collaborative consumption, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, congestion pricing, corporate social responsibility, degrowth, glass ceiling, global village, hydraulic fracturing, intentional community, megacity, new economy, off grid, oil shale / tar sands, peak oil, planetary scale, publish or perish, Silicon Valley, systems thinking, the built environment, the scientific method, The Spirit Level, urban planning, Zipcar

I asked Jonathan Dawson, author of the economics module of the curriculum, about GEN’s educational mission. Along with the other Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth (GEESE) from GEN, Jonathan assumed that the EDE would generate ecovillages. “But that’s not what happened!” he said. “There was a glass ceiling: the price of land. Today, fewer new ecovillages are being built, even though our courses are more popular than ever. People are taking our courses into their own communities rather than starting new ecovillages. That’s fine with us. The point is not for ecovillages to replicate themselves; the point is to build a sustainable world.”


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Upgrade by Blake Crouch

bioinformatics, butterfly effect, cognitive dissonance, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, CRISPR, dark matter, deepfake, double helix, Douglas Hofstadter, driverless car, drone strike, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Hyperloop, independent contractor, job automation, low earth orbit, messenger bag, mirror neurons, off grid, pattern recognition, phenotype, ride hailing / ride sharing, supervolcano, time dilation

The first night in my vivarium reminded me of my first night in prison. The cell doors locking in unison. The sound of the big lights in the common area shutting off. The silence and darkness closing in around me as I faced the reality that my life was over, that these walls were my home for the next thirty years. I lay down on the mattress and stared up at the glass ceiling. My mother was alive. I had so many thoughts and questions swirling in my head that it was hard to be still. Where had she been? What had she been doing for the last twenty years? Why hadn’t she reached out to me? Had she constructed this upgrade, which was light-years beyond the most sophisticated genetic engineering ever imagined?


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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build by Jonathan Waldman

Burning Man, computer vision, Ford paid five dollars a day, glass ceiling, helicopter parent, Hyperloop, industrial robot, information security, James Webb Space Telescope, job automation, Lean Startup, minimum viable product, off grid, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, Strategic Defense Initiative, strikebreaker, union organizing, Yogi Berra

No foreman complained about their quality, and Scott didn’t complain about their pace. They started using the grill as soon as the mud hardened. 16. Washington Aside from having to spend August in Washington, D.C., the month went well for the engineers: On a handsome three-story school there, SAM finally broke through its glass ceiling of 150bph and ran at 250bph for five straight hours. It helped that Clark was the general contractor of the job, and that the masonry contractor was the same firm that had so eagerly thrown SAM at the army barracks nine months earlier. Together, they cut out the shenanigans that had interrupted work in Laramie, and eliminated a lot of the farting around that seemed to be par for the course in construction.


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Boundless: The Rise, Fall, and Escape of Carlos Ghosn by Nick Kostov

"World Economic Forum" Davos, airport security, bitcoin, business logic, collapse of Lehman Brothers, corporate governance, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, Donald Trump, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Les Trente Glorieuses, lockdown, Masayoshi Son, offshore financial centre, rolodex, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, the payments system

Still, he was nothing if not ambitious and was constantly at work composing a vivid and detailed mental picture of how the power brokers in his world operated. While he was calculating and observing the trajectories of success of those around him, it dawned on the Lebanese transplant (living in the United States, working for a French company) that he had enjoyed a meteoric rise during his almost two decades at Michelin—but he was about to hit a glass ceiling. He was not a man who appreciated boundaries. In 1996, François Michelin began planning to retire and prepared to hand over greater responsibilities to his son Édouard. The elder Michelin had sent his son to North America to be mentored by Ghosn, who put him in charge of the plants and truck tire sales.


4. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor

friendly fire, glass ceiling, Isaac Newton

‘You won’t need it. I’m sorry.’ ‘It’s understandable. How do you feel?’ ‘Don’t you know?’ ‘I’m a doctor. I know everything.’ ‘So how am I?’ ‘Well, you’ve broken your hand, cracked some ribs, been involved in an explosion, and the lantern fell in on you. I was going to make a clever joke about the glass ceiling but I’m now so intimidated that I’ve forgotten it. Have you eaten anything?’ ‘I’ve only been awake for two minutes, for God’s sake. When would I get the chance?’ ‘Difficult and uncooperative patient,’ he said slowly, writing on the chart. ‘When did you last open your bowels?’ ‘February. What happened to the Forces of Darkness?


Engineering Security by Peter Gutmann

active measures, address space layout randomization, air gap, algorithmic trading, Amazon Web Services, Asperger Syndrome, bank run, barriers to entry, bitcoin, Brian Krebs, business process, call centre, card file, cloud computing, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, cognitive load, combinatorial explosion, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Debian, domain-specific language, Donald Davies, Donald Knuth, double helix, Dr. Strangelove, Dunning–Kruger effect, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, false flag, fault tolerance, Firefox, fundamental attribution error, George Akerlof, glass ceiling, GnuPG, Google Chrome, Hacker News, information security, iterative process, Jacob Appelbaum, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, John Conway, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John von Neumann, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, lake wobegon effect, Laplace demon, linear programming, litecoin, load shedding, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Multics, Network effects, nocebo, operational security, Paradox of Choice, Parkinson's law, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer, Pierre-Simon Laplace, place-making, post-materialism, QR code, quantum cryptography, race to the bottom, random walk, recommendation engine, RFID, risk tolerance, Robert Metcalfe, rolling blackouts, Ruby on Rails, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Satoshi Nakamoto, security theater, semantic web, seminal paper, Skype, slashdot, smart meter, social intelligence, speech recognition, SQL injection, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Stuxnet, sunk-cost fallacy, supply-chain attack, telemarketer, text mining, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Market for Lemons, the payments system, Therac-25, too big to fail, Tragedy of the Commons, Turing complete, Turing machine, Turing test, Wayback Machine, web application, web of trust, x509 certificate, Y2K, zero day, Zimmermann PGP

References 217 [248] “Danger Signals: An Investigation into Modern Railway Accidents”, Stanley Hall, Ian Allan Ltd, 1987. [249] “Pretty good persuasion: : a first step towards effective password security in the real world”, Dirk Weirich and Angela Sasse, Proceedings of the 2001 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW’01), September 2001, p.137. [250] “Re: [hcisec] Glass ceilings for security?”, Angela Sasse, posting to the hcisec@yahoogroups.com mailing list, message-ID 49A03A3D.4050806@cs.ucl.ac.uk, 21 February 2009. [251] “Optimised to Fail: Card Readers for Online Banking”, Saar Drimer, Steven Murdoch and Ross Anderson, Proceedings of the 13th Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC’09), Springer-Verlag LNCS No.5628, February 2009, p.184. [252] “Chip and PIN is Broken”, Steven Murdoch and Ross Anderson, Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’10), May 2010, p.433. [253] “The default answer to every dialog box is ‘Cancel’”, Raymond Chen, 1 September 2003, http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/01/54734.aspx. [254] “XP Automatic Update Nagging”, Jeff Atwood, 13 May 2005, http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html. [255] “The Crapware Con”, Mike Jennings, PC Pro Magazine, 29 October 2009, http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/352927/the-crapware-con. [256] “Smartphone crapware: worse than laptops?”

A phenomenon similar to the shared-logon practice in medical computing occurs in grid computing security, where one project member obtains a certificate and everyone else shares it [252]107. Although the participants in this case are technically highly skilled, the corresponding increase in difficulty in working with certificates means that they take the same approach that the non-technical hospital workers do with passwords. It’s possible that there’s a form of glass ceiling for security above which users find it far easier to bypass it than to comply with it, although there doesn’t seem to be much data available in this area beyond noting that the use of one or two passwords (or equivalents like reading a value off an authentication token) are below the threshold for most users and technologies like PKI and smart cards are well above it.

A better way of stating this though is that the amount of effort that’s required by the authentication process has to be proportionate to the value that it provides. When the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK went to a cloud-based infrastructure the password sign-up and password-change process was made sufficiently onerous that users found it far easier to bypass it than to jump through all of the hoops that were required for it. So the glass ceiling is a movable feast 108 relative to the benefit that’s obtained from the authentication operation, and even a standard password can be 107 In one memorable email a site manager had to point out to users that although he didn’t mind seeing half the user base logged on with the same certificate, the fact that its original owner had been dead for several months was causing logistical issues and would they consider generating a new key for everyone to share. 108 As well as a mixed metaphor.


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Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

Ada Lovelace, Bill Atkinson, bioinformatics, Bletchley Park, Charles Babbage, cloud computing, Compatible Time-Sharing System, Conway's Game of Life, Dennis Ritchie, domain-specific language, don't repeat yourself, Donald Knuth, fallacies of distributed computing, fault tolerance, Fermat's Last Theorem, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, functional programming, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Guido van Rossum, history of Unix, HyperCard, industrial research laboratory, information retrieval, Ken Thompson, L Peter Deutsch, Larry Wall, loose coupling, Marc Andreessen, Menlo Park, Metcalfe's law, Multics, no silver bullet, Perl 6, premature optimization, publish or perish, random walk, revision control, Richard Stallman, rolodex, Ruby on Rails, Saturday Night Live, side project, slashdot, speech recognition, systems thinking, the scientific method, Therac-25, Turing complete, Turing machine, Turing test, type inference, Valgrind, web application

It happened in the late '60s, at least in the environments that I was in. I had left Research to be involved with the ACS project and went to California. Then I came back to the Research division and found it a very, very different environment than the one I had left essentially eight years earlier. There was a significant glass ceiling. There were processes in place, lines of management. And the management structures had changed and decision-making had become much more formal, particularly about what projects to do and how to do them. And the number of women had changed and the position of women in the organization had significantly changed, and not for the good.

In 1970, '71, '72, I was 19 years or 18 years into a career that was just full of fun and opportunity. I never saw myself as advancing, but I felt I had the freedom to do what I felt was right and to work on interesting things in roles that I would enjoy. And I came back and found out that wasn't the case. Seibel: Do you think that glass ceiling had, in fact, been there before and you hadn't bumped up against it yet? Or had something changed? Allen: It really hadn't been there previously. Recently I realized what was probably the root cause of this: computer science had emerged between 1960 and 1970. And it mostly came out of the engineering schools; some of it came from mathematics.


Lonely Planet Eastern Europe by Lonely Planet, Mark Baker, Tamara Sheward, Anita Isalska, Hugh McNaughtan, Lorna Parkes, Greg Bloom, Marc Di Duca, Peter Dragicevich, Tom Masters, Leonid Ragozin, Tim Richards, Simon Richmond

Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, crowdsourcing, Day of the Dead, Defenestration of Prague, Fall of the Berlin Wall, flag carrier, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, low cost airline, mass immigration, pre–internet, Steve Jobs, the High Line, Transnistria, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl

oSarajevo City HallARCHITECTURE (Vijećnica; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.nub.ba; adult/child 5/3KM; h10am-8pm Jun-Sep, to 5pm Oct-May) Storybook neo-Moorish facades make the 1898 Vijećnica Sarajevo's most beautiful Austro-Hungarian–era building. Seriously damaged during the 1990s siege, it finally reopened in 2014 after laborious reconstruction. Its colourfully restored multi-arched interior and stained-glass ceiling are superb. And the ticket also allows you to peruse the excellent Sarajevo 1914-1981 exhibition in the octagonal basement. This gives well-explained potted histories of the city's various 20th-century periods, insights into fashion and music subcultures, and revelations about Franz Ferdinand's love life.

oHotel MetropolHISTORIC HOTEL€€€ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %499-501 7800; www.metropol-moscow.ru; Teatralny proezd 1/4; r from R10,000; naWs; mTeatralnaya) Nothing short of an art nouveau masterpiece, the 1907 Metropol brings an artistic, historic touch to every nook and cranny, from the spectacular exterior to the grand lobby to the individually decorated (but small) rooms. The breakfast buffet (R2000) is ridiculously priced, but it's served under the restaurant's gorgeous stained-glass ceiling. 5Eating Danilovsky MarketMARKET€€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; www.danrinok.ru; Mytnaya ul 74; mains R400-600; h8am-8pm; mTulskaya) A showcase of the ongoing gentrification of Moscow, this giant Soviet-era farmers market is now largely about deli food cooked and served in a myriad of little eateries, including such gems as a Dagestani dumpling shop and a Vietnamese pho soup kitchen.


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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership by Richard Branson

barriers to entry, Boeing 747, call centre, carbon footprint, Celtic Tiger, clean water, collective bargaining, Costa Concordia, do what you love, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, flag carrier, friendly fire, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, index card, inflight wifi, Lao Tzu, legacy carrier, low cost airline, M-Pesa, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Nelson Mandela, Northern Rock, profit motive, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Tesla Model S, Tony Fadell, trade route, vertical integration, Virgin Galactic, work culture , zero-sum game

This is a step-by-step process and before anyone can hope to increase the amount of female representation at board level there first has to be a much higher ratio of women in senior executive roles. According to the 2013 Fortune 1000 list of CEOs, only 4.6 per cent (that is, forty-six) are women and that number has been virtually stagnant for a decade. I find that quite appalling but hopefully the infamous glass ceiling is about to become a distant memory with the new generation of dynamic women leaders that are now running a lot of formerly very macho organisations like General Motors (Mary Barra took over in January 2014), Pepsico, IBM, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. Others like Sheryl Sandberg, the vociferous COO at Facebook and Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are also gaining momentum in the drive to make gender a non-issue in the workplace.


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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age by David S. Abraham

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, Airbus A320, Boeing 747, carbon footprint, circular economy, Citizen Lab, clean tech, clean water, commoditize, Deng Xiaoping, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Fairphone, geopolitical risk, gigafactory, glass ceiling, global supply chain, information retrieval, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, Large Hadron Collider, new economy, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, planned obsolescence, reshoring, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Solyndra, South China Sea, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, systems thinking, telemarketer, Tesla Model S, thinkpad, upwardly mobile, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks, Y2K

A few miles from the city center, just below some of the most lush, verdant terrain outside of a rain forest, sits the $300-a-night Hotel e Termas de Araxá—a gem of colonial-style architecture, built by a former Brazilian president in the 1940s to attract a well-to-do domestic and international clientele. The complex is stately; with the exception of government state houses, few places boast a three-story rotunda with a stained-glass ceiling and a white and black marble floor. But for all its grandeur, the resort’s free-wheeling casino days are behind it. Seventy years after its founding it has lost some of its luster: grass rises up between the cracks in the cement-blocked sidewalk. I doubt if more than 15 of the 283 rooms were occupied when I visited in 2013.1 Other than the hotel, Araxá has lost much of its tourist appeal.


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The Road Ahead by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson

Albert Einstein, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, Berlin Wall, Bill Gates: Altair 8800, Bob Noyce, Bonfire of the Vanities, business process, California gold rush, Charles Babbage, Claude Shannon: information theory, computer age, Donald Knuth, first square of the chessboard, first square of the chessboard / second half of the chessboard, glass ceiling, global village, informal economy, invention of movable type, invention of the printing press, invention of writing, John von Neumann, knowledge worker, medical malpractice, Mitch Kapor, new economy, packet switching, popular electronics, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, SimCity, speech recognition, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Ted Nelson, telemarketer, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transaction costs, Turing machine, Turing test, Von Neumann architecture

That's because you'll be entering onto the top floor. First thing, as you come in, you'll be presented with an electronic pin to clip to your clothes. This pin will connect you to the electronic services of the house. Next, you will descend either by elevator or down a staircase that runs straight toward the water under a sloping glass ceiling supported by posts of Douglas fir. The house has lots of exposed horizontal beams and vertical supports. You'll have a great view of the lake. My hope is that the view and the Douglas fir, rather than the electronic pin, will be what interest you most as you descend toward the ground floor. Most of the wood came from an eighty-year-old Weyerhaeuser lumber mill that was being torn down out on the Columbia River.


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SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World by Sandra Navidi

"World Economic Forum" Davos, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Alan Greenspan, Anthropocene, assortative mating, bank run, barriers to entry, Bear Stearns, Bernie Sanders, Black Swan, Blythe Masters, Bretton Woods, butterfly effect, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carmen Reinhart, central bank independence, cognitive bias, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, commoditize, conceptual framework, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, crony capitalism, digital divide, diversification, Dunbar number, East Village, eat what you kill, Elon Musk, eurozone crisis, fake it until you make it, family office, financial engineering, financial repression, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, Google bus, Gordon Gekko, haute cuisine, high net worth, hindsight bias, income inequality, index fund, intangible asset, Jaron Lanier, Jim Simons, John Meriwether, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, Kevin Roose, knowledge economy, London Whale, Long Term Capital Management, longitudinal study, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, McMansion, mittelstand, Money creation, money market fund, Myron Scholes, NetJets, Network effects, no-fly zone, offshore financial centre, old-boy network, Parag Khanna, Paul Samuelson, peer-to-peer, performance metric, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, power law, public intellectual, quantitative easing, Renaissance Technologies, rent-seeking, reserve currency, risk tolerance, Robert Gordon, Robert Shiller, rolodex, Satyajit Das, search costs, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social intelligence, sovereign wealth fund, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, subprime mortgage crisis, systems thinking, tech billionaire, The Future of Employment, The Predators' Ball, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, too big to fail, Tyler Cowen, women in the workforce, young professional

Margo Epprecht, “The Real Reason Women Are Leaving Wall Street,” The Atlantic, September 5, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/the-real-reason-why-women-are-leaving-wall-street/279379; Carrick Mollenkamp, “Sallie Krawcheck on Taking the Fall—Again,” Marie Claire, April 17, 2012, http://www.marieclaire.com/career-money/jobs/sallie-krawcheck-interview. 27. Andrew Clark, “Lehman Brothers’ Golden Girl, Erin Callan: Through the Glass Ceiling—and Off the Glass Cliff,” Guardian, March 19, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/mar/19/lehmans-erin-callan-glass-cliff. 28. Gillian Tett, “Lunch with the FT: Christine Lagarde,” Financial Times, September 12, 2014, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4c506aec-3938-11e4-9526-00144feabdc0.xhtml. 29.


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City of Exiles by Alec Nevala-Lee

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, false flag, glass ceiling, side project, Transnistria

A few seagulls were perching on the mud of the bank. At first, she had been excited by the prospect of a river view, but its sodden reality had been yet another case of this city refusing to meet her expectations. A year ago, Powell’s call had come at a time when she was already hungering for a change. The Bureau’s glass ceiling was no worse than any other, but as in most organizations built on mentorship, it was hard for a young woman to find a sponsor. Powerful men were wary of the rumors that inevitably accompanied such relationships, and while a female patron could sometimes be found, Wolfe, who had never outgrown certain mother issues, had quietly blown several of her best chances.


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The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling

airport security, Burning Man, cuban missile crisis, digital map, Dr. Strangelove, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, information security, Iridium satellite, Larry Ellison, market bubble, military-industrial complex, new economy, off-the-grid, packet switching, pirate software, profit motive, RFID, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring, Ronald Reagan, satellite internet, Silicon Valley, space junk, Steve Jobs, systems thinking, thinkpad, Y2K

I mean, Enron recruited the top of the top of the class. The best of the best. I was Enron fresh out of college.” Van sucked cold air through the gap in his broken teeth. “But thanks to you, I can make a brand-new career. In federal security, I can go just as far as my talent can take me. There’s no glass ceiling there! I mean, Janet Reno was Attorney General!” Resignedly, Van adjusted Fawn’s bedside bouquet. “Can I tell you one more thing, Van? You look so nice without that beard. You look so normal. I mean, that side of your face that isn’t swollen. I like your hair that way, too. It’s kind of like Sonny Bono before he became a congressman.”


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Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement by Amy Lang, Daniel Lang/levitsky

activist lawyer, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bonus culture, British Empire, capitalist realism, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, corporate governance, corporate personhood, crowdsourcing, David Graeber, deindustrialization, different worldview, facts on the ground, gentrification, glass ceiling, housing crisis, housing justice, Kibera, late capitalism, lolcat, mass incarceration, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, plutocrats, Port of Oakland, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Slavoj Žižek, social contagion, structural adjustment programs, the medium is the message, too big to fail, trade liberalization, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, War on Poverty, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, We are the 99%, white flight, working poor

It has broken the idea of American exceptionalism and linked US social distress and protest to the pink tide in Latin America, the Arab Spring and the pre-revolutionary strivings of the indignados of Club Med. This new radical imagination forces us to break with the liberal desires for reform of a structure that can no longer be plastered over, as termites have already eaten into its foundation. It forces us to break with multicultural upward mobility that has both succeeded in breaking the glass ceiling, and at the same time demonstrated its inability to operate on behalf of the multitudes. Neither liberal reform nor multiculturalism. We require something much deeper, something more radical. The answers to our questions and to the condition of bare life are not to be found in being cautious. We need to cultivate the imagination, for those who lack an imagination cannot know what lacks. ♦ leftturn.org/occupying-imagination-cultivating-new-politics ROBIN HOOD WAS RIGHT The Oakland Commune Aaron Bady 5 December 2011 As a site of resistance, ‘Wall Street’ is a metonym for a system, a transnational apparatus of capital and political oligarchy.


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Family Trade by Stross, Charles

book value, British Empire, glass ceiling, haute couture, indoor plumbing, junk bonds, land reform, Larry Ellison, new economy, retail therapy, sexual politics, trade route

“Do not underestimate random chance.” “I don’t,” she said tersely. “Listen, why the third degree?” “Because.” He stared at her unblinkingly: “I take a personal interest in all threats to Clan security.” “Bullshit. You’re secretary to the duke. And a member of the outer families, I believe?” She looked up at him. ‘That puts a glass ceiling right over your head, doesn’t it? You sit in Fort Lofstrom like a spider, pulling strings, and you run things in Boston when the duke is elsewhere, but only by proxy. Don’t you? So what’s in it for you?” “You are mistaken.” Matthias’s eyes glinted by candlelight. “To get here, I left the duke’s side this morning.”


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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George

American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, Anton Chekhov, Bob Geldof, Celtic Tiger, clean water, glass ceiling, indoor plumbing, informal economy, job satisfaction, John Snow's cholera map, joint-stock company, land reform, low cost airline, Nelson Mandela, New Urbanism, Pepto Bismol, Potemkin village, Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, Steven Pinker, urban planning

Under India’s Scheduled Castes reservations system—which is controversial but widely implemented—Dalits benefit from positive discrimination in employment and university places. But they are still Dalits, and there is still caste. Surveys show that the majority of young Indians still expect to have an arranged marriage, and 40 percent won’t marry outside their own caste or state. The glass ceiling pressing down upon the scavengers’ heads consists of cultural prejudices, but also of economics. When I first wrote about manual scavengers for the American magazine Jane, the first draft of my story came back punctuated with the editor’s questions. She couldn’t understand why scavengers felt obliged to do this work, and who employed them.


Fodor's Dordogne & the Best of Southwest France With Paris by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

call centre, carbon tax, flag carrier, glass ceiling, happiness index / gross national happiness, haute couture, haute cuisine, Murano, Venice glass, Nelson Mandela, subprime mortgage crisis, three-masted sailing ship, urban planning, young professional

. $$ | At the border of Montmartre’s now tamed red-light district sits this former cabaret with much of its Art Deco wood paneling and theatrical trappings intact. Prices are at the low end of its category. The hotel has dark, rich decor, with green walls, red armchairs, an antique caged elevator, and vaudeville posters in the stained-glass-ceiling lounge. Reproduction furniture, antique prints and oils, and busy modern fabrics fill out the larger-than-average rooms. Some windows face Sacré-Coeur. Guests receive a complimentary book illustrating the history of absinthe, which is once again served in the hotel’s historic bar. Pros: spacious rooms for the price; historic absinthe bar; close to Sacré-Coeur.


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Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story by Greg Smith

Alan Greenspan, always be closing, asset allocation, Bear Stearns, Black Swan, bonus culture, break the buck, collateralized debt obligation, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, delayed gratification, East Village, fear index, financial engineering, fixed income, Flash crash, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, high net worth, information asymmetry, London Interbank Offered Rate, mega-rich, money market fund, new economy, Nick Leeson, proprietary trading, quantitative hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Skype, sovereign wealth fund, Stanford marshmallow experiment, statistical model, technology bubble, too big to fail

The building’s first seven stories were occupied by gigantic trading floors, each larger than a football field, and significantly bigger than the fiftieth floor at One New York Plaza. (The Derivatives desk, along with the rest of the six-hundred-person Equities Sales and Trading division, was on the fourth floor.) Above were Goldman’s executive offices, Research division, and Investment Banking division. On the tenth and eleventh floors, under a beautiful high glass ceiling, were a 54,000-square-foot gym and an enormous new cafeteria. There was a lot of excitement and pride within the firm about the new headquarters. And the place to get the latest information on when we would be moving in was Salvatore’s Barber Shop in the basement of One New York Plaza. A significant proportion of the guys on our trading floor used to go down for a quick “wig adjustment” and a hot towel after the market closed.


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The Stolen Year by Anya Kamenetz

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, 2021 United States Capitol attack, Anthropocene, basic income, Black Lives Matter, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, Day of the Dead, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, East Village, emotional labour, ending welfare as we know it, epigenetics, food desert, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, helicopter parent, informal economy, inventory management, invisible hand, Kintsugi, labor-force participation, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, medical residency, Minecraft, moral panic, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, rent stabilization, risk tolerance, school choice, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, universal basic income, upwardly mobile, wages for housework, War on Poverty, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration

NOW’s advocacy for the Child Development Act was limited in part by budget; these were volunteer-run organizations using the boss’s phone lines and copy machines after hours. But Danziger Halperin argues, based on the record, that NOW’s lobbying for childcare was ultimately “half-hearted.” That’s because mainstream, primarily white, feminists had their eyes on a different prize. “There really is the push toward eliminating glass ceilings, and employment, and then that turns into a focus on professional women’s economic success,” she told me. In our unequal system, it’s mainly highly educated dual-career couples who can afford to buy their way out of the caregiving conundrum. This is actually easier to do when caring remains undervalued in the marketplace.


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Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers by Michael Fabey

Albert Einstein, augmented reality, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Boeing 747, company town, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, desegregation, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, George Floyd, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, Minecraft, Ronald Reagan, social distancing, South China Sea, union organizing

Petters saw and appreciated the way she collaborated, the way she built strong teams that seemed to gel—and delivered exceptional results. At the ripe old age of fifty-three, she became not only yard president, but also corporate VP for Huntington Ingalls Industries, directly reporting to Petters. The first female president of the yard remained more interested in breaking new ground than smashing glass ceilings. The way she saw it, manufacturing all around the world had started to undergo a new kind of industrial revolution, and she saw digital shipbuilding as the key to success for her business. With a tablet tap, shipbuilders pulled up work instructions and training videos. Eventually, workers anticipated getting a little pop-up window through which they could contact the designer and engineer, showing them an image to get the best technical help, right through the tablet, which also tracked the amount of time needed to complete the job.


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British Rail by Christian Wolmar

accounting loophole / creative accounting, airport security, Beeching cuts, book value, Boris Johnson, COVID-19, driverless car, full employment, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, Kaizen: continuous improvement, Kickstarter, vertical integration, éminence grise

He then reneged on his promise to allow her to sack the existing Permanent Secretary, Sir Thomas Padmore, who had worked under her predecessor and was opposed to many of the changes she wanted to make. She was the first woman transport minister, a role that up till then had been seen as a male preserve for boys to play with their toys. The fact that this was a significant break through the glass ceiling was well illustrated on her first day, when she discovered there was no women’s toilet on the same floor as her office, necessitating the rapid conversion of one for her use. Not surprisingly, the ministry as a whole and the wider transport industry were male-dominated. Policy, meanwhile, was skewed towards roads, which Castle, as a non-driver, was determined to change.


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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

East Village, glass ceiling, haute couture, index card, indoor plumbing

When Dad wasn't telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad's engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase. The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun's rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. It would even have its own water-purification system. Dad had worked out the architecture and the floor plans and most of the mathematical calculations.


The Rough Guide to New York City by Martin Dunford

Anton Chekhov, Berlin Wall, Bonfire of the Vanities, Buckminster Fuller, buttonwood tree, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, David Sedaris, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, Edward Thorp, Elisha Otis, Exxon Valdez, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, machine readable, market bubble, Michael Milken, Multics, Norman Mailer, paper trading, post-work, rent stabilization, retail therapy, Saturday Night Live, subprime mortgage crisis, sustainable-tourism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transcontinental railway, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, white flight, Yogi Berra, young professional

Dating from 580 BC and originally from Attica, it marked the grave of the son of a wealthy family, created according to tradition as a memorial to ensure he would be remembered. Beyond here, the vast Sardis Column from the Temple of Artemis marks the entrance into the spectacular Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, a soaring two-story atrium of Roman sculpture from the first century BC to the second century AD, with mosaic floors, Doric columns, and a glass ceiling – take a moment to soak up your surroundings at the fountain in the center. Highlights include the incredibly detailed Badminton Sarcophagus towards the back, and the enigmatic bust of the emperor Caracalla from the third century. THE M E TROPOL I TAN M US E UM O F A RT Metropolitan Museum of Art Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Michael C.

Move into the Library to see more British pictures, such as Reynolds’ Lady Taylor, who’s dwarfed by her huge blue ribbon and feather hat, and one of Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral series; there’s also a portrait of Frick himself here, as a white-bearded old man. Across in the North Hall, look for a beguiling portrait by Ingres, Comtesse d’Haussonville. The West Gallery is another important space: the long, elegant room is decorated with dark-green walls and carpet, a concave glass ceiling, and ornately carved wood trim. There’s a clutch of snazzy Dutch pictures here, including a set of piercing self-portraits by Rembrandt and a couple of uncharacteristically informal portraits of Frans Snyders and his wife by Van Dyck, Frick’s favorite artist. This gallery is also the location of the last picture Frick himself bought before his death in 1919: Vermeer’s seemingly unfinished Mistress and Maid, a snapshot of an intimate moment.


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USA's Best Trips by Sara Benson

Albert Einstein, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, cotton gin, Day of the Dead, desegregation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, if you build it, they will come, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, McMansion, mega-rich, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, side project, Silicon Valley, the High Line, transcontinental railway, trickle-down economics, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white flight, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

When you’re done, pop around the corner and check out the Seattle Public Library, one of the most dazzling modern structures in the city. The building is made almost entirely of diamond-shaped panes of glass, and, on certain days, it manages to feel sunnier indoors than out. Be sure to check out the wow-inducing, 12,000-sq-ft reading room with 40ft glass ceilings. For dinner, make reservations for Dahlia Lounge. It’s an institution, and one of those rare places that locals and tourists seem to agree on. With crimson walls, fabulous desserts, and celebrity chef Tom Douglas, it’s an easy choice for dinner, but, if nothing else, stop by and get something sweet to go from the Dahlia Bakery next door.

DO Chop Suey The intimate setting with kitschy Asian touches makes this a great place for catching up-and-coming indie artists. 206-324-8005; www.chopsuey.com; 1325 E Madison St; admission $5-15; 7pm-2am, door times vary Elliott Bay Bookstore This huge independent bookstore is ideal for browsing on a rainy afternoon. 206-624-6600; www.elliottbaybook.com; 101 S Main St; 9:30am-9pm Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm Sun Experience Music Project & Science Fiction Museum One admission gets you into both, and there’s plenty of memorabilia to keep you amused. 877-367-7361; www.empsfm.org; 325 5th Ave N; adult/youth, student & senior/under 5yr $15/12/free; 10am-7pm Neumo’s It gets hot and crowded, sure, but their lineup keeps people coming back. 206-709-9467; www.neumos.com; 925 E Pike St; admission $7-21; schedule varies Olympic Sculpture Park When the sun comes out, you don’t want to be inside an art museum. 206-654-3100; 2901 Western Ave; admission free; sunrise-sunset Pike Place Market Come watch the fishmongers tossing huge king salmon, and soak in the Seattle atmosphere. 206-682-7453; www.pikeplacemarket.org; 1501 Pike Pl; admission free; stores 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun Seattle Art Museum This excellent museum, which doubled in size in 2007, packs in everything from tribal masks to tea cups. 206-654-3100; www.seattleartmuseum.org; 1300 1st Ave; adult/senior/student/under 12yr $15/12/9/free; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun, 10am-9pm Thu & Fri, closed Tue in winter Seattle Public Library When everyone says you have to go to the library, you know it must be good. 206-386-4636; www.spl.org; 1000 4th Ave; 10am-8pm Mon-Wed, 10am-6pm Thu-Sat, 1-5pm Sun Tractor Tavern Check out live rockabilly, alt country and acoustic sets (but be prepared to stand). 206-789-3599; www.tractortavern.com; 5213 Ballard Ave NW; admission $6-20; door times vary EAT 5 Spot Huge portions and a cute neon sign make this local spot a favorite. 206-285-7768; www.chowfoods.com/five/; 1502 Queen Anne Ave N; mains $8-14; breakfast, lunch & dinner Bimbo’s Cantina Killer burritos in a fun, loud atmosphere that’s decorated in a lucha libre style. 206-322-9950; 1013 E Pike St; mains $6-10; kitchen noon-midnight, cantina to 2am Dahlia Lounge Chef Tom Douglas is Seattle’s favorite foodie; at least come for dessert. 206-682-4142; www.tomdouglas.com; 2001 4th Ave; mains $24-38; brunch Sat & Sun, lunch Mon-Fri, dinner Mon-Sat Etta’s Seafood Make reservations for this popular seafood spot near Pike’s Place Market. 206-443-6000; www.tomdouglas.com; 2020 Western Ave; mains $12-25; lunch & dinner Mon-Sat, brunch 9am-3pm Sat & Sun Salumi Hope for a table in this tiny deli, but be prepared to take your sandwiches to go. 206-621-8772; www.salumicuredmeats.com; 309 3rd Ave S; mains $7-14; 11am-4pm Tue-Fri Top Pot Doughnuts Whether or not this place serves the finest coffee in town, it’s definitely got the best doughnuts. 206-728-1966; 2124 5th Ave; 6am-7pm Mon-Fri, 7am-7pm Sat & Sun DRINK Starbucks Once it was a little independent coffee shop. 206-448-8762; 1912 Pike Pl; 6am-9pm Mon-Fri, 6:30am-9pm Sat & Sun (reduced hrs in winter) Zeitgeist Coffee Zeitgeist will keep you from going to a chain you have at home. 206-583-0497; www.zeitgeistcoffee.com; 171 S Jackson St; 6am-7pm Mon-Fri, 8am-7pm Sat & Sun SLEEP Ace Hotel Stylish and modern, this place has the feel of a converted loft that your artist friend owns. 206-448-4721; www.acehotel.com; 2423 1st Ave; r $75-199 Arctic Club Nostalgia is just one of the amenities of this plush, retro hotel; don’t miss the Dome Room’s leaded-glass ceiling. 206-340-0340; www.arcticclubhotel.com; 700 3rd Ave; r $90-250 Green Tortoise Hostel Located just steps from Pike’s Place Market, this place has got the best location and the lowest prices in town. 206-340-1222; www.greentortoise.net; 105 Pike St; d $28-32 USEFUL WEBSITES www.thestranger.com www.visitseattle.org * * * * * * LINK YOUR TRIP www.lonelyplanet.com/trip-planner TRIP 7 Wet & Wild West Coast 97 Whistle-Stop Brewery Tour 98 The Simpsons to the Shining * * * Return to beginning of chapter TRIP 93 Pacific Northwest Grand Tour * * * WHY GO This meandering journey through the Pacific Northwest takes you from western Canada’s largest city to the California border.


Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area by Nick Edwards, Mark Ellwood

1960s counterculture, airport security, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Blue Bottle Coffee, British Empire, Burning Man, California gold rush, carbon footprint, City Beautiful movement, Day of the Dead, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Menlo Park, messenger bag, Nelson Mandela, period drama, pez dispenser, Port of Oakland, rent control, retail therapy, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, San Francisco homelessness, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, strikebreaker, transcontinental railway, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, young professional

The extravagant Rococo structure boasted antique furniture and lavish facilities – tragically, like almost every other building Downtown, it was ravaged by the 1906 fire, and subsequent remodelings have dampened its excesses. The one exception is the Garden Court dining room, the only indoor space on the National Register of Historic Places. Here, you can have high tea under the original 1875 Austrian crystal chandeliers suspended from the glass ceiling, which itself dates back to the post-fire refit of 1909. Eighty years later, it cost a staggering $7 million to dismantle, clean, and retouch the 72,000 panes of glass. The Yerba Buena district and around | SoMa Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sony Metreon and the San Francisco Zeum On the gardens’ eastern flank stands the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St at Third (Tues,Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun noon–5pm, Thurs 11am– 8pm; $7, free first Tues of month or with a same-day ticket to an evening performance; t 415/978-2787, w www.ybca.org).

Pflueger, the San Francisco architect behind the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, the Castro Theatre, and many of the buildings on Treasure Island. Pflueger enlisted the help of a group of artists to contribute to the Paramount’s design, as evidenced by the building’s eclectic mix of accoutrements, from the illuminated “fountain of light” stained-glass ceiling in the entrance to the mosaics and reliefs which adorn every inch of the interior. Several nearby buildings are equally flamboyant, ranging from the wafer-thin Gothic “flatiron” office tower of the Cathedral Building at Broadway and Telegraph, to the Hindu temple-like facade of the magnificent 3500-seat Fox Oakland (now closed) on Telegraph at 19th – the largest movie house west of Chicago at the time it was built in 1928.


The Rough Guide to New York City by Rough Guides

3D printing, Airbnb, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, bike sharing, Blue Bottle Coffee, Bonfire of the Vanities, Broken windows theory, Buckminster Fuller, buttonwood tree, car-free, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, collateralized debt obligation, colonial rule, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, crack epidemic, David Sedaris, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, East Village, Edward Thorp, Elisha Otis, Exxon Valdez, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, glass ceiling, greed is good, haute couture, haute cuisine, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, index fund, it's over 9,000, Jane Jacobs, junk bonds, Kickstarter, Lewis Mumford, Lyft, machine readable, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, paper trading, Ponzi scheme, post-work, pre–internet, rent stabilization, ride hailing / ride sharing, Saturday Night Live, Scaled Composites, starchitect, subprime mortgage crisis, sustainable-tourism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transcontinental railway, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, uber lyft, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, white flight, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, young professional

Dating from 580 BC and originally from Attica, it marked the grave of the son of a wealthy family, created to ensure he would be remembered. Beyond here, the hefty Sardis Column from the Temple of Artemis marks the entrance into the stunning Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (Gallery 162), a soaring two-storey atrium of Roman sculpture from the first century BC to the second century AD, with mosaic floors, Doric columns and a glass ceiling – take a moment to soak up your surroundings at the fountain in the centre. Highlights include the incredibly detailed Badminton Sarcophagus towards the back, and beyond this a small but enigmatic bust of the Emperor Caracalla from the third century. Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Michael C.

Library and North Hall Move into the oak-panelled Library to see more English paintings, such as Turner’s early Fishing Boats entering Calais Harbour, Reynolds’ Lady Taylor, who’s dwarfed by her huge blue ribbon and feather hat, and one of Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral series; there’s also a portrait of Frick himself here, as a white-bearded old man, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a lady adorned with flowing red plumage and one of Frick’s rare American paintings, a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Across in the North Hall, look for the gorgeous but chill-inducing Vétheuil in Winter by Monet. The West and East galleries The West Gallery is a long, elegant room, decorated with dark-green walls and carpet, a concave glass ceiling and ornately carved wood trim. There’s a clutch of snazzy Dutch pictures here, including Rembrandt’s enigmatic Polish Rider and his most magnificent self-portrait, regal robes contrasting with his sorrowful, weary expression. Look out for a couple of uncharacteristically informal portraits of Frans Snyders and his wife by Anthony van Dyck, Frick’s favourite artist, and Turner’s vast canvases of Dieppe and Cologne.


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Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, big-box store, bike sharing, Boeing 747, British Empire, Burning Man, butterfly effect, car-free, carbon footprint, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Day of the Dead, Frank Gehry, G4S, gentrification, glass ceiling, housing crisis, indoor plumbing, intermodal, Kickstarter, Lyft, Murano, Venice glass, New Urbanism, remote working, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, trade route, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban decay, urban planning, urban sprawl, V2 rocket, Works Progress Administration, Zipcar

Geiser Grand HotelHOTEL$$ (%888-434-7374, 541-523-1889; www.geisergrand.com; 1996 Main St; d $109-289, ste $149-339; naW#) Baker City’s downtown landmark and fanciest lodging is this meticulously restored Italian Renaissance Revival building, designed by John Bennes, an architect with his fingerprints all over Oregon’s coolest buildings. The elegant rooms are spacious and decorated with old-style furniture, while the restaurant offers fine food and has a stunning stained-glass ceiling. There’s a great old saloon, too. 5Eating & Drinking Lone Pine CafeBREAKFAST$ (%541-523-1805; 1825 Main St; breakfasts $5.50-12; h8am-3pm) Baker City’s best breakfast choice, come to this brick-interior, casual cafe for hearty egg and potato dishes plus a few extras like brioche French toast and huevos rancheros.

He now oversees a team of artisans who perform the principal construction of his works. The Seattle area boasts a number of Chihuly installations, including the beautiful Chihuly Garden and Glass. Tacoma has some huge pieces in the entrance of its Federal Courthouse, and the best feature at the nearby Museum of Glass is an outdoor pedestrian bridge with a glass ceiling. For smaller-scale work, don’t miss Chihuly’s permanent collection at the Tacoma Art Museum. Best Modern Art Seattle Art Museum Roq la Rue Gallery (Seattle) Portland Art Museum Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland) Vancouver Art Gallery Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) Architecture & Notable Buildings Architecture in the Pacific Northwest is as progressive and eclectic as in any other modern region.


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The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks

antiwork, basic income, call centre, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, conceptual framework, deskilling, feminist movement, financial independence, Ford paid five dollars a day, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, glass ceiling, Kim Stanley Robinson, late capitalism, low-wage service sector, means of production, Meghnad Desai, moral panic, new economy, New Urbanism, occupational segregation, pink-collar, post-Fordism, post-work, postindustrial economy, profit maximization, Shoshana Zuboff, social intelligence, two tier labour market, union organizing, universal basic income, W. E. B. Du Bois, wages for housework, women in the workforce, work culture , zero-sum game

As her feminist critics have since pointed out, most women’s experience with waged work was not then and is not now what Friedan had in mind when she waxed eloquent about the many rewards of a serious, disciplined, lifelong professional commitment. Most women in the United States worry less about being able to break through the glass ceiling than they do about falling through a structurally unstable floor. Focused as she was on a very specific population of white, middle-class American women, Friedan largely ignored the realities of a dual-wage labor market, constituted in part by the racial and gender divisions of labor, the poles of which have continued to move apart since 1963.


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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, availability heuristic, behavioural economics, big-box store, Cass Sunstein, choice architecture, cognitive dissonance, confounding variable, correlation coefficient, correlation does not imply causation, cosmological constant, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, do well by doing good, Edward Jenner, endowment effect, experimental subject, feminist movement, fixed income, fundamental attribution error, Garrett Hardin, glass ceiling, Henri Poincaré, if you see hoof prints, think horses—not zebras, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Isaac Newton, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, lake wobegon effect, libertarian paternalism, longitudinal study, loss aversion, low skilled workers, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, Neil Armstrong, quantitative easing, Richard Thaler, Ronald Reagan, selection bias, Shai Danziger, Socratic dialogue, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, tacit knowledge, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Tragedy of the Commons, William of Occam, Yitang Zhang, Zipcar

We have to fight the reflexive conclusion that A can’t exert a causal influence on B because there is no correlation between the two. Discrimination: Look at the Statistics or Bug the Conference Room? While we’re on the topic of discrimination, let me point out that you can’t prove whether discrimination is going on in an organization—or a society—by statistics. You often read about “glass ceilings” for women in a given field or about disproportionate school suspensions of boys or minorities. The intimation—often the direct accusation—is that discrimination is at work. But numbers alone won’t tell the story. We don’t know that as many women as men have the qualifications or desire to be partners in law firms or high-level executives in corporations.


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How the Post Office Created America: A History by Winifred Gallagher

British Empire, California gold rush, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, City Beautiful movement, clean water, collective bargaining, cotton gin, financial engineering, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, hiring and firing, indoor plumbing, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, pneumatic tube, public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Republic of Letters, Silicon Valley, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, upwardly mobile, white flight, wikimedia commons, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration

In 1958, Postmaster General Summerfield had trumpeted, “With our near 16,000 women Postmasters representing close to half of our entire management staff, we believe it is fair to say the American Post Office Department . . . recognizes the management abilities of women perhaps more than any other private or governmental organization anywhere.” However, his disingenuous statement tried to equate postmasters and executives. The first woman to break that glass ceiling was Alice B. Sanger, who had been employed by Benjamin Harrison before he was elected president. He made her a clerk in the White House in 1889, which distinguished her as one of the first women to work there who wasn’t a maid. She joined the Post Office Department in 1894, rose up the ladder, and in 1925 became an assistant clerk to the department’s chief clerk—the first woman to hold that position.


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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson

airport security, animal electricity, caloric restriction, caloric restriction, classic study, experimental subject, Fellow of the Royal Society, Frederick Winslow Taylor, glass ceiling, Iridium satellite, medical residency, megaproject, meta-analysis, placebo effect, randomized controlled trial, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Stanford marshmallow experiment, sugar pill, systems thinking, technoutopianism, Walter Mischel

., “Pacing Strategies During Repeated Maximal Voluntary Contractions,” European Journal of Applied Physiology 114, no. 7 (2014). 10. the prospects of a sub-two-hour marathon: For the analogy to the four-minute mile, see Claire Dorotik-Nana, “The Four Minute Mile, the Two Hour Marathon, and the Danger of Glass Ceilings,” PsychCentral.com, May 5, 2017. For skeptical takes, see Robert Johnson, “The Myth of the Sub-2-Hour Marathon,” LetsRun.com, May 6, 2013; and Ross Tucker, “The 2-Hour Marathon and the 4-Min Mile,” Science of Sport, December 16, 2014. 11. Spanish star José Luis González became the three hundredth man: According to the list maintained by the National Union of Track Statisticians, https://nuts.org.uk/sub-4/sub4-dat.htm. 12.


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Clan Corporate by Stross, Charles

Dr. Strangelove, glass ceiling, imposter syndrome, indoor plumbing, liquidity trap, RFID

Do you see?” “That was a mistake, it would seem.” “Oh yes.” Iris was silent for almost a minute. “Because there are no grandchildren, and in the terms of the game that means I’m not a full player. I thought for a while your business plans on the other side would serve instead, but there’s the glass ceiling again: you’re a woman. You’ve set yourself up to do something that just isn’t in the rules, so lots of people want to take you down. They want to make you play the game, to conform to expectations, because that reinforces their own role. If you don’t conform, you threaten them, so they’ll use that as an excuse to destroy you.


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Licence to be Bad by Jonathan Aldred

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, behavioural economics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Berlin Wall, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Black Swan, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carmen Reinhart, Cass Sunstein, Charles Babbage, clean water, cognitive dissonance, corporate governance, correlation does not imply causation, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Dr. Strangelove, Edward Snowden, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, falling living standards, feminist movement, framing effect, Frederick Winslow Taylor, From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death, full employment, Gary Kildall, George Akerlof, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Herman Kahn, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, John Nash: game theory, John von Neumann, Linda problem, Long Term Capital Management, Louis Bachelier, mandelbrot fractal, meta-analysis, Mont Pelerin Society, mutually assured destruction, Myron Scholes, Nash equilibrium, Norbert Wiener, nudge unit, obamacare, offshore financial centre, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, plutocrats, positional goods, power law, precautionary principle, profit maximization, profit motive, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Richard Thaler, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, road to serfdom, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, Skinner box, Skype, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, spectrum auction, The Nature of the Firm, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, Vilfredo Pareto, wealth creators, zero-sum game

Buchanan found his distrust of what he called the ‘East Coast establishment’ confirmed first in the Navy, and then, when applying for academic jobs, when he felt repeatedly passed over in favour of less well-qualified applicants from Ivy League universities. He complained that he had been ‘subjected to overt discrimination’10 – although he could hardly worry about a glass ceiling after winning the Nobel Prize for economics in 1986. Buchanan’s career was spent mostly at universities in Virginia rather than Ivy League establishments. This physical separation from US academic elites was reinforced by a political separation: Buchanan and his colleagues saw the mainstream faith in ‘neutral’ bureaucrats who serve the public interest as leading down the road to communism.


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Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain by Ed Husain

affirmative action, Ayatollah Khomeini, battle of ideas, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Donald Trump, glass ceiling, Jeremy Corbyn, Khyber Pass, Mark Zuckerberg, Ronald Reagan, Shamima Begum

I wonder how my next destination, Birmingham, will compare. 5 Birmingham It is 5 p.m. Birmingham Grand Central offers a better welcome than Bradford or Manchester’s main railway stations. The platforms are cleaner and more spacious, and a vast array of shops and restaurants are fully visible within a structure designed like a spaceship. The circular, dome-like glass ceiling welcomes in natural light, and provides cover for the familiar retail outlets of modern Britain: John Lewis, Nespresso, Moleskine, Jo Malone, Boots, Pret a Manger, The Body Shop and a slew of others. Shoppers are busy and the station, with its wide corridors, cream-white walls and dark-grey slate floor, is full of activity.


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Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, affirmative action, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-bias training, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, clean tech, cloud computing, contact tracing, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, critical race theory, crony capitalism, cryptocurrency, defund the police, deplatforming, desegregation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, fudge factor, full employment, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, green new deal, hiring and firing, Hyperloop, impact investing, independent contractor, index fund, Jeff Bezos, lockdown, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, microaggression, military-industrial complex, Network effects, Parler "social media", plant based meat, Ponzi scheme, profit maximization, random walk, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk-adjusted returns, Robert Bork, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, self-driving car, shareholder value, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley ideology, single source of truth, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, source of truth, sovereign wealth fund, Susan Wojcicki, the scientific method, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, trade route, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, Vanguard fund, Virgin Galactic, WeWork, zero-sum game

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded by saying, “I’m happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury Secretary, and she’s monitoring the situation.”31 In other words, we’re not gonna answer your question about all that stock stuff, but the important thing to remember is that we’ve got a female Treasury Secretary out there breaking glass ceilings. You can’t make this stuff up. The really important thing to remember here is that Big Tech’s idea-fixing isn’t just about silencing conservatives. That’s only where it started. But it evolved just weeks later. Corporate America acclimated regular Americans into accepting its censorship by banning “hate speech” from conservatives.


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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs by Guy Raz

Airbnb, AOL-Time Warner, Apple II, barriers to entry, Bear Stearns, Ben Horowitz, Big Tech, big-box store, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Blitzscaling, business logic, call centre, Clayton Christensen, commoditize, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, data science, East Village, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, fear of failure, glass ceiling, growth hacking, housing crisis, imposter syndrome, inventory management, It's morning again in America, iterative process, James Dyson, Jeff Bezos, Justin.tv, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, pets.com, power law, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, side hustle, Silicon Valley, software as a service, South of Market, San Francisco, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, subprime mortgage crisis, TED Talk, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Tony Hsieh, Uber for X, uber lyft, Y Combinator, Zipcar

This is why if, like most new businesses, you aren’t doing something completely novel or you aren’t doing it in a totally new way or new place, you should be thinking long and hard about how else you might enter your market besides knocking on the front door and asking for permission to come in. This is something that female and minority entrepreneurs have long had to contend with, whether it means breaking through glass ceilings or breaking down walls built by prejudice. All of which is to say, figuring out how to sneak in through the side door is not new ground you will have to break. A legion of resourceful geniuses have come before you. And what many of them have discovered is that the side door isn’t just less heavily guarded, it’s often bigger.


Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt

4chan, Apollo 11, augmented reality, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, fake news, financial engineering, game design, glass ceiling, global pandemic, haute cuisine, hive mind, late capitalism, lateral thinking, lolcat, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, military-industrial complex, New Urbanism, period drama, Ponzi scheme, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, social distancing, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, strikebreaker, three-martini lunch, union organizing, work culture , zero-sum game

She would go on to great fame as the host of a popular children’s program, illustrating stories on a translucent acrylic sheet suspended between her and the audience, drawing with both hands—backward, from her perspective. But before all of that came to pass, she would rise to fame as the creator of a character that would move more products than Tsuji’s strawberries ever had. It was, prophetically, a little cat. Its popularity helped Ado shatter the glass ceiling for the vanguard of a new wave of young female creators. In her prime, Mizumori was the living embodiment of Japan’s kawaii culture. In picking a talented young woman like her, Tsuji was ahead of the curve. The choice might seem like a no-brainer for a company whose raison d’être was making stuff for schoolgirls.


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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall

Apollo 11, Ayatollah Khomeini, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Sedaris, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, Elon Musk, European colonialism, failed state, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Great Leap Forward, Jeff Bezos, Johannes Kepler, low earth orbit, Malacca Straits, means of production, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, space junk, Strategic Defense Initiative, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, trade route, uranium enrichment, urban planning, women in the workforce

This cultural exchange across the Red Sea is woven into Ethiopian folklore in the tale of the union between the Queen of Sheba and Israel’s King Solomon. Known in Ethiopia as Makeda, she is the mother figure in the foundation story of the country. There are different versions of the tale, one including hairy legs and glass ceilings, which we need not look into. In the fourteenth-century Ethiopian national epic Kebra Nagast (Glory of Kings), the queen, fascinated by Solomon’s wisdom, pays him a visit. He takes quite a shine to her and on the last night tricks her into his bed. The result – a son! He was named Menilek and became the founder of the royal Solomonic dynasty of Ethiopia and its Judeo-Christian tradition.


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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever

anti-communist, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, Brexit referendum, British Empire, colonial rule, company town, COVID-19, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, Easter island, European colonialism, flag carrier, gentrification, glass ceiling, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, Kibera, low cost airline, megacity, off-the-grid, Pier Paolo Pasolini, place-making, ride hailing / ride sharing, spice trade, tech bro, trade route, walkable city, women in the workforce

The hotel occupies a privileged position in the upscale Gold Coast neighborhood, with Lake Michigan views and walkable access to fancy shopping on the so-called Magnificent Mile, plus superb service and amenities like on-call ice cream sundae and martini carts, a spa and indoor Roman pool covered by a glass ceiling—in short, it’s the kind of place that Tony enjoyed retreating to after a hard day of dive bars, meaty sandwiches, and tough characters. FOUR SEASONS CHICAGO: 120 East Delaware Place, Chicago, IL 60611, Tel 312 280 8800, www.fourseasons.com/chicago (rooms start at about $425 per night) A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CULTURE * * * Another advantage of staying at the Four Seasons is its proximity to a cultural institution that catered to Tony’s longtime fascination with medical maladies, oddities, and unusual, gruesome, or woefully ineffective remedies.


Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories From the Frontline by Steven K. Kapp

Asperger Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, basic income, book value, butterfly effect, cognitive dissonance, demand response, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, epigenetics, feminist movement, glass ceiling, Internet Archive, Jeremy Corbyn, medical malpractice, meta-analysis, multilevel marketing, neurotypical, New Journalism, pattern recognition, phenotype, randomized controlled trial, selection bias, slashdot, theory of mind, twin studies, universal basic income, Wayback Machine

Although I had differences with Mary over the redefinition of Neurodiversity as purely “developmental” I was one of several people involved with DANDA who went on later to challenge the National Autistic Society (NAS) from the perspective of the well-used disability rightsmotto “nothing about us without us.” My claim to fame was in breaking the glass ceiling of that society in becoming the first diagnosed autistic person to serve on the board in 2003. Not I humbly add, the first autistic person to serve on the board of an autism charity—both Thomas McKean and Stephen Shore served on boards in the USA—but the first to make a major impact on the direction of the largest autism charity in the UK.


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Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World by Nir Rosen

Ayatollah Khomeini, failed state, glass ceiling, Google Earth, liberal capitalism, Parag Khanna, selection bias, Seymour Hersh, unemployed young men, urban sprawl, éminence grise

Bremer, however, treated Iraqis as if they harbored ancient grievances, claiming in an article after he retired that “Shiite conscripts were regularly brutalized and abused by their Sunni officers.” This was not true: although Sunnis were overrepresented in the officer corps and Shiites sometimes felt there was a glass ceiling, there were Shiite ministers and generals, and at least one-third of the famous deck of cards of those Iraqis most wanted by the Americans were Shiites. Complex historical factors account for why Sunnis were overrepresented in majority-Shiite areas. Many attribute this to the legacy of the Ottomans and the British colonizers, while others theorize that minorities took power in several postcolonial Arab countries—Alawites in Syria, Maronites in Lebanon, and Sunnis in Iraq.

Mouayad al-Windawi was a Shiite professor of political science who left the University of Baghdad in May 2005. “In my first lesson after the war, I said this will be a disaster and bring us nothing. We will live in chaos for a long time.” A member of the Baath Party until 2001, he explained to me that under Saddam there was some sectarianism, but it was not overt. A glass ceiling kept many Shiites from advancing too high. “I worked with the Iraqi government for the last forty years,” he said. “Not much attention was paid to who you are.” I asked him how sectarianism had increased after the war. “Ask Mr. Bremer,” he told me, referring to Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority.


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This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War by David F. Krugler

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Berlin Wall, City Beautiful movement, colonial rule, company town, cuban missile crisis, desegregation, Dr. Strangelove, Frank Gehry, full employment, glass ceiling, index card, launch on warning, Lewis Mumford, nuclear winter, RAND corporation, Silicon Valley, urban planning, Victor Gruen, white flight, Works Progress Administration

Rouse actively participated in the planning and development of Columbia, and he insisted that builders and realtors abjure racial discrimination. He proudly located his company’s headquarters in the town center and commissioned architect Frank Gehry to design an exhibition building. Galleria, the shopping mall, had a glass ceiling, trees, and fountains. Columbia soon enticed people looking for a community that blended the best features of urban, suburban, and small town living. Historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom: “by the late 1960s and early 1970s, Columbia was poised as an attractive alternative to surrounding suburbs.”64 Augur and Stein could hardly have wanted more for their own imagined cluster cities.


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Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff by Christine S. Richard

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Alan Greenspan, Asian financial crisis, asset-backed security, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Blythe Masters, book value, buy and hold, Carl Icahn, cognitive dissonance, collateralized debt obligation, corporate governance, corporate raider, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, diversification, Donald Trump, electricity market, family office, financial innovation, fixed income, forensic accounting, glass ceiling, Greenspan put, Long Term Capital Management, market bubble, money market fund, moral hazard, old-boy network, Pershing Square Capital Management, Ponzi scheme, profit motive, Savings and loan crisis, short selling, short squeeze, statistical model, stock buybacks, subprime mortgage crisis, white flight, zero-sum game

It was a patchwork of bets—for $10 million, $50 million, and $100 million—with numerous counterparties and expiration dates ranging from just a few months to five years and more into the future. “Keep selling,” Ackman messaged Saad back. The transactions that day marked the first time Ackman had sold any significant amount of MBIA exposure since he began buying protection on MBIA in 2002. Under the Palm Court’s famous stained-glass ceiling, the birthday group had settled into enormous high-backed upholstered chairs. Ackman’s grandmother was dwarfed by the chair, and even Ackman at 6 feet 3 inches looked a bit like a kid at the grown-ups’ table. Back at Pershing Square, the investment team was intensely focused on the news. Somebody needed to go through MBIA’s financial statements and see at what level the collateral calls on the GIC contracts kicked in, Ackman messaged Mick McGuire.


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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 1960s counterculture, accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, algorithmic trading, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, blockchain, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon tax, carbon-based life, Charlie Hebdo massacre, cognitive dissonance, computer age, computer vision, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, decarbonisation, DeepMind, deglobalization, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, failed state, fake news, Filter Bubble, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Freestyle chess, gig economy, glass ceiling, Google Glasses, illegal immigration, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invisible hand, job automation, knowledge economy, liberation theology, Louis Pasteur, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, means of production, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, Mohammed Bouazizi, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, obamacare, pattern recognition, post-truth, post-work, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, restrictive zoning, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Scramble for Africa, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, TED Talk, transatlantic slave trade, trolley problem, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, universal basic income, uranium enrichment, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, zero-sum game

In fact there are thousands of people alive today who trace their ancestry back to the aboriginal population of Tasmania, and they struggle with many unique problems – one of which is that their very existence is frequently denied, not least by learned scholars. Even if you personally belong to a disadvantaged group, and therefore have a deep first-hand understanding of its viewpoint, that does not mean you understand the viewpoint of all other such groups. For each group and subgroup faces a different maze of glass ceilings, double standards, coded insults and institutional discrimination. A thirty-year-old African American man has thirty years’ experience of what it means to be an African American man. But he has no experience of what it means to be an African American woman, a Bulgarian Roma, a blind Russian or a Chinese lesbian.


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The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frederick Winslow Taylor, glass ceiling, joint-stock company, new economy, scientific management, shareholder value, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, vertical integration, zero-sum game

Robert Maiden, one of Van Cise’s private detectives, was watching him, and he recorded in his surveillance notes that Norfleet first entered the Brown Palace on August 22, 1922, at 11:10 a.m. As soon as he did, Norfleet saw a steerer lounging in a club chair, but first he would play his big entrance to the hilt. He walked into the atrium under the stained-glass ceiling eight stories above him, a room that had held royals, millionaires, and Roosevelts. He stood for a moment in his homespun shagginess, letting his incongruity sharpen, and then he pounced on a man who had just entered the atrium with his two young daughters. “Well, well, I thought I knowed you,” Norfleet exclaimed, pumping his hand.


Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart

Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, East Village, glass ceiling, Gordon Gekko, greed is good, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, launch on warning, Neil Armstrong, New Journalism, Ronald Reagan, Yom Kippur War, young professional

Enter Maya (name changed), a sweet, damaged round girl who is a dominatrix in the Vault, New York’s premier sadomasochist club, whom I will also pluck from life and pin, with a modicum of blood spilled, onto the pages of my burgeoning first novel under the name Challah. Enter me. John invites me out. I am so impressed to be meeting a real writer I tell John I will gladly pay for dinner. I take him to a fancy Indian place called Akbar on Park Avenue and Fifty-Ninth, where Paulie, my lecherous high school boss, used to take me. The restaurant has stained-glass ceilings that dazzle my Little Neck eye, and the waiters seem very proud of their powerful tandoor oven, from which emerges my very first pillowy naan bread, the steam rising magically around my fingers as I tear it apart. I do not realize that this is the last fancy meal I will pay for in the next five years, nor that I am about to turn in one benefactor for another, this one without the urge to bend me over his desk.


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Atrocity Archives by Stross, Charles

airport security, anthropic principle, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, brain emulation, British Empire, Buckminster Fuller, defense in depth, disinformation, disintermediation, experimental subject, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, hypertext link, Khyber Pass, luminiferous ether, mandelbrot fractal, Menlo Park, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Neal Stephenson, NP-complete, PalmPilot, pneumatic tube, Snow Crash, Strategic Defense Initiative, the medium is the message, Y2K, yield curve

My third interrogator pipes up in a reedy voice: "This isn't the whole story, is it, Robert?" I stare at her, annoyed. "Probably not, no." Bridget is a blonde yuppwardly-mobile executive, her sights fixed on the dizzying heights of the cabinet office in seeming ignorance of the bulletproof glass ceiling that hovers over all of us who work in the Laundry. Her main job description seems to be making life shitty for everybody farther down the ladder, principally by way of her number one henchperson, Harriet. She holds forth, strictly for the record: "I'm unhappy about the way this assignment was set up.


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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by Secret Barrister

cognitive bias, Donald Trump, G4S, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), mandatory minimum, post-truth, race to the bottom, Schrödinger's Cat, statistical model

Once the Treason Trial Act of 1696, which guaranteed the right to defence representation in treason cases, nudged the door ajar, beseeching lawyers persuaded judges to incrementally extend the right to representation in other, serious trials, until, by the end of the eighteenth century, defence advocates were a regular presence in the criminal courts. And, as feared, they ran riot over the settled production line of convicting miscreants. At first the barrister’s role was strictly limited: he (for it was always ‘he’ until Helena Normanton smashed the glass ceiling in 1922) could address the court on matters of law. And he could cross-examine the prosecution witnesses. He was not permitted to assist in the presentation of the defence evidence, and was not allowed to address the jury. The theory was that defendants would continue to be obliged to speak in their own defence, from which the truth would emerge.


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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, Ada Lovelace, anti-bias training, autism spectrum disorder, Bellingcat, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica, cognitive dissonance, coherent worldview, deplatforming, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, fake news, feminist movement, Filter Bubble, gender pay gap, George Floyd, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, off grid, Overton Window, recommendation engine, ride hailing / ride sharing, Snapchat, Social Justice Warrior, Steve Bannon, tech bro, young professional

From the Telegraph to BuzzFeed to The Observer, articles included quotes from the party’s leader, Mike Buchanan, such as: ‘We hear a lot about misogyny, which is actually very rare, but a hatred of men is very commonplace… As far as the state is concerned, males are pretty much subhuman and they’ll do anything they can to destroy men’s lives.’ In his new status as a politician, Buchanan was also given free rein to opine unchallenged about the ‘myth’ of the glass ceiling, stating: ‘Women just want to do other things with their lives… They’re less driven and have less to gain from getting to the top of their professions, so they naturally don’t put the effort in that a man would.’25 Although much of the coverage was critical, the very fact that such quotes appeared in the national press in the context of a political leader running for office helps to provide MRA ideology with a sense of legitimacy and acceptability, while also serving as a gateway for potentially susceptible converts, who might go on to access some of the movement’s more extreme online spaces as a result.


Yoga Nidra by Kamini Desai

Exxon Valdez, glass ceiling, job satisfaction, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, placebo effect, social intelligence, traumatic brain injury, wikimedia commons

Change the concepts and we can change the physiology. There are of course biological changes that do happen with time. It is true that the body ages and will die at a certain point. Nevertheless, how we look, feel and act as the body ages is very flexible and subject to our thoughts and emotions. Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Our Beliefs Frees Our Healing Potential Perhaps, it is these same beliefs and samskaras that limit the true healing capacity of the body. Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel and numerous pioneering non-traditional doctors, healers and researchers believe this. If the body is constantly renewing itself and is fully capable of healing itself, they suggest the belief that the body cannot change is actually limiting its ability to heal.


Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, Bonfire of the Vanities, call centre, citizen journalism, corporate governance, cuban missile crisis, death of newspapers, disinformation, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, glass ceiling, guest worker program, illegal immigration, immigration reform, It's morning again in America, pension reform, profit motive, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Saturday Night Live, school choice, school vouchers, Steve Jobs, upwardly mobile, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, white flight

That has important linguistic implications for the selling of both products and politicians. From deciding which house to buy, to choosing the location of the family’s next vacation, to selecting the brand of beer in the fridge for her husband, women are making choices that affect far more people than just themselves. Women may still face a glass ceiling in the workplace, but they have more control over the family wallet than their male counterparts do. MYTH: AMERICANS DIVIDE NEATLY AND ACCURATELY INTO URBAN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL POPULATIONS False. Over the past five years or so, we’ve seen the emergence of a fourth, wholly new category: affluent homeowners with growing bank accounts, growing families, bigger big-screen TVs, and a bigger outlook on life.


Germany Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, bank run, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, Boeing 747, British Empire, call centre, capitalist realism, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, company town, double helix, Dr. Strangelove, eurozone crisis, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, haute couture, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Kepler, Kickstarter, low cost airline, messenger bag, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neil Armstrong, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, oil shale / tar sands, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Eisenman, post-work, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, sensible shoes, Skype, starchitect, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, V2 rocket, white picket fence

Enter via the chunky high-rise behind the Pit Stop auto shop. KREUZBERG & NORTHERN NEUKÖLLN Würgeengel BAR Offline map Google map (www.wuergeengel.de; Dresdner Strasse 122; from 7pm; Kottbusser Tor) For a swish night out, point the compass to this ʼ50s-style cocktail cave complete with glass ceiling, chandeliers and shiny black tables. It’s especially busy after the final credits roll at the adjacent Babylon Offline map Google map 6160 9693; www.yorck.de; Dresdner Strasse 126; tickets €5.50-7.50; Kottbusser Tor) cinema. The name, by the way, pays homage to the surreal 1962 Buñuel movie Exterminating Angel.

Art Nouveau Department Store ARCHITECTURE (Marienplatz) Until 2009 you could still buy everything from socks to clocks in this architectural stunner centred on a galleried atrium accented with wooden balustrades, floating staircases and palatial chandeliers, and lidded by an ornately patterned glass ceiling. It will remain empty (but is usually open in the daytime) until a new investor can be found. Another art-nouveau delicacy is the nearby Strassburg Passage, a light-flooded shopping arcade connecting Berliner Strasse and Jacobstrasse. UNTERMARKT & EASTERN ALTSTADT Barockhaus MUSEUM (671 355; www.museum-goerlitz.de; Neissstrasse 30; adult/concession €5/3.50; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat) Johann Christian Ameiss was a wealthy merchant who translated his Midas touch into this magnificent baroque residence that later became the seat of a prestigious science society.

Brauhaus Peters BEER HALL Offline map Google map (257 3950; www.peters-brauhaus.de; Mühlengasse 1; dishes €4-13; 11am-12.30am) This relative youngster draws a somewhat less raucous crowd knocking back their Kölsch in a web of highly individualistic nooks, including a room lidded by a kaleidoscopic stained-glass ceiling. On Tuesday, insiders invade for the freshly made potato pancakes. The wood carving over the main entrance translates as: ‘Hops and malt, God preserves’. Früh am Dom BEER HALL Offline map Google map (258 0394; www.frueh.de; Am Hof 12-14; mains €5-12) This warren of a beer hall near the Dom epitomises Cologne earthiness.


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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray

anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, borderless world, Boris Johnson, British Empire, centre right, cognitive dissonance, deindustrialization, European colonialism, facts on the ground, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, gentrification, glass ceiling, high net worth, illegal immigration, low skilled workers, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, open borders, post-industrial society, white flight

Born thirteen years after Richter, in the year the Second World War ended, his work is even more obviously devoted to recording a great culture in the wreckage of its self-destruction. His vast Interior (1981), like Richter’s work of the 1960s, obviously records the horror. In this case the first-time viewer can probably guess, by the grandiosity of the room and the dilapidation of the image – the shattered look of the glass ceiling, the ripped walls in the grand hall – that this is a Nazi room. Further reading shows that it is in fact one of the offices in the New Reich Chancellery designed for Hitler by Albert Speer. But the sense that this is a grand vista (the painting is about nine square metres) of a room in which something terrible happened is as obvious as a guilty-looking man in a police line-up.


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The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig

financial independence, glass ceiling, Google Earth, housing crisis, illegal immigration, Ocado, pink-collar, Stephen Fry

At Paddington Station, people are surging forwards and sideways at every announcement. The biannual exodus from London is in full swing, and a brass band breaks into the theme tune from The Dambusters. ‘Dear God, no,’ he mutters, but the fools actually get applause. Once, this place with its soaring glass ceilings and elegant white ironwork showed him the silhouettes of domes and spires. Now, he must turn his back on it and return to the Land that Style Forgot. Whenever he sees someone in a tunic, jerkin and furry boots, he knows where they’re heading. What is it about the West Country that turns minds to mush?


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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland by Rory Stewart

agricultural Revolution, British Empire, connected car, Etonian, glass ceiling, Isaac Newton, Khyber Pass, land reform, Neil Armstrong, RAND corporation, rewilding, Silicon Valley

The manager of my boutique hotel – with its international accreditation and carefully arranged swathes of thick silk curtain – had trained abroad. On the way out of Melrose I stopped at Walter Scott’s house at Abbotsford. It was closed. A £15 million renovation was focused, it appeared, on building an underground car park and visitor centre. An artist had marked the entrance with knots of thick rope, strung from a forty-foot glass ceiling. A vast video screen showed a young fashion designer leaning out of an armchair and confiding, ‘I haven’t read anything by Walter Scott, but he is very important to me.’ I continued through the back of Scott’s estate and came out by a small grey loch, municipally arranged with gravel and a bench.


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The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones

anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, autism spectrum disorder, bank run, battle of ideas, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, bonus culture, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, British Empire, call centre, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, centre right, citizen journalism, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collective bargaining, disinformation, don't be evil, Edward Snowden, Etonian, eurozone crisis, falling living standards, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, G4S, glass ceiling, hiring and firing, housing crisis, inflation targeting, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), investor state dispute settlement, James Dyson, Jon Ronson, laissez-faire capitalism, land bank, light touch regulation, low interest rates, market fundamentalism, mass immigration, Monroe Doctrine, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, Neil Kinnock, night-watchman state, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, Northern Rock, Occupy movement, offshore financial centre, old-boy network, open borders, Overton Window, plutocrats, popular capitalism, post-war consensus, profit motive, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, rent control, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, short selling, sovereign wealth fund, stakhanovite, statistical model, subprime mortgage crisis, Suez crisis 1956, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transfer pricing, Tyler Cowen, union organizing, unpaid internship, Washington Consensus, We are all Keynesians now, wealth creators, Winter of Discontent

It is not just self-avowed left-wingers who criticize the ‘socialism for the rich’ that runs through Britain’s Establishment; there are libertarian right-wingers who acknowledge it, too. Douglas Carswell is a maverick, self-professed ‘libertarian’ Conservative MP. As we sit beneath the arched glass ceiling of Parliament’s Portcullis House, he tells me that he draws inspiration from the radical Levellers of seventeenth-century England. ‘I look around and I think of the disputes of the seventeenth century: we’re still up against an arrogant effete elite who hoard power and leech and parasite off the rest of us,’ he says, his words delivered in emphatic, staccato bursts.


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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris

air freight, American ideology, British Empire, business process, California gold rush, Charles Babbage, clean water, colonial exploitation, computer age, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, Dava Sobel, en.wikipedia.org, flying shuttle, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, hiring and firing, Ida Tarbell, if you build it, they will come, interchangeable parts, Isaac Newton, Jacquard loom, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, John Harrison: Longitude, joint-stock company, lone genius, manufacturing employment, megaproject, new economy, New Urbanism, old age dependency ratio, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, purchasing power parity, QWERTY keyboard, refrigerator car, Robert Gordon, scientific management, spinning jenny, Stephen Hawking, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, undersea cable

The new respect for the purchasing power of women was reflected in the blossoming of the department store. The first establishment by that name was John Wanamaker’s, which opened in Philadelphia in 1876 as the “largest space in the world devoted to retail selling on a single floor.” Occupying a full city block in midtown, it was all about women. Lighted by a stained-glass ceiling by day and hundreds of gas lights by night, it was arranged in concentric circles, as much as two-thirds of a mile long, with 1,100 counter stools, so a lady could sit and discuss her purchase. Displays featured “Ladies’ Furnishings Goods,” “Gloves,” “Laces,” and “Linen Sheeting.” The 70,000 people who showed up on opening day were naturally almost all women, as were the counter assistants—although the lordly, formally dressed floor walkers were all male.


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The Rough Guide to Toronto by Helen Lovekin, Phil Lee

airport security, British Empire, car-free, glass ceiling, global village, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, Jane Jacobs, joint-stock company, Khyber Pass, Kickstarter, Marshall McLuhan, megacity, place-making, urban renewal, urban sprawl

Hung with flags, heavy-duty chandeliers and suits of armour, it’s a remarkably cheerless place, but, in a touch worthy of Errol Flynn, the hall is overlooked by a balcony at the end of Pellatt’s second-floor bedroom; presumably, Sir Henry could, like some medieval baron, welcome his guests from on high. Pushing on, the library and then the walnut-panelled dining room lead to the conservatory, an elegant and spacious room with a marble floor and side-panels set beneath a handsome Tiffany domed glass ceiling. Well-lit, this is perhaps the mansion’s most appealing room, its flowerbeds kept warm even in winter by the original network of steam pipes. The nearby study was Sir Henry’s favourite room, a serious affair engulfed by mahogany panelling and equipped with two secret passageways, one leading to the wine cellar, the other to his wife’s rooms – a quintessential dichotomy.


The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor

activist lawyer, banking crisis, corporate governance, credit crunch, Deng Xiaoping, financial innovation, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, global reserve currency, Great Leap Forward, haute couture, high-speed rail, hiring and firing, income inequality, invisible hand, kremlinology, land reform, Martin Wolf, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, old-boy network, one-China policy, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, pre–internet, reserve currency, risk/return, Shenzhen special economic zone , South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Upton Sinclair

Far from their pedigree ensuring promotion, the PLA’s princelings are increasingly falling short in competitions for top positions. ‘Instead of moving up to become chief military leaders, the majority of the princeling generals ended their career in deputy positions,’ said Bo Zhiyue, a Chinese academic, who combed through decades of military records for his study. ‘The fact that they hit a glass ceiling in the military and the Central Committee means their family background could be a liability.’ The PLA has also quietly developed a system where commanders take primary responsibility for their units, even though they are in theory ranked on a par with the political commissars. ‘Effective command of the troops requires the concentration of power in one centre,’ says You Ji, a Chinese military specialist.


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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard

2021 United States Capitol attack, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, asset-backed security, bank run, banking crisis, Basel III, Bear Stearns, collateralized debt obligation, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Dutch auction, financial engineering, financial innovation, fixed income, Ford Model T, forensic accounting, forward guidance, full employment, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, Greenspan put, hydraulic fracturing, income inequality, inflation targeting, Internet Archive, inverted yield curve, junk bonds, lockdown, long and variable lags, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, market bubble, Money creation, mortgage debt, new economy, obamacare, pets.com, power law, proprietary trading, quantitative easing, reserve currency, risk tolerance, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, stock buybacks, too big to fail, yield curve

* * * After Powell joined Rexnord’s board of directors, he often traveled to Milwaukee to meet with Jansen and the rest of the management team, holding long meetings about the company’s strategy, budget, and operations. They didn’t gather for these meetings at Rexnord’s actual headquarters, near the factory. Instead, they rented conference rooms at places like the Pfister Hotel, a century-old building downtown, with a four-story-tall atrium lined with marble columns and domed with a glass ceiling. Roughly twice a year, the board gathered for a multiday strategy session at the Doral Country Club in Miami (the club was later bought by the Trump Organization). The resort was a good place to think, with spacious patios near the pool and golf course, just outside the sprawling hotel complex that looked like a Southern Gothic mansion.


Germany by Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Albert Einstein, bank run, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, call centre, capitalist realism, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, company town, computer age, credit crunch, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, haute couture, haute cuisine, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Kepler, Kickstarter, low cost airline, messenger bag, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Urbanism, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Eisenman, place-making, post-work, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, sensible shoes, Skype, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal, V2 rocket, white picket fence

Kiki Blofeld (Map; Köpenicker Strasse 48/49; from 2pm Mon-Fri, from noon Sat & Sun) A Spree-side rendezvous with Kiki will have you swinging in a hammock, lounging on natural grassy benches, chilling on the riverside beach, waving to passing boats from the wooden deck, catching an offbeat flick or shaking it in an East German army boat patrol bunker. Würgeengel (Map; 615 5560; Dresdner Strasse 122; from 7pm) For a swanky night out, point the compass to this dimly lit cocktail cave. The interior is pure ’50s with a striking glass ceiling, chandeliers and shiny-black tables. The name, by the way, pays homage to the surreal 1962 Luis Buñuel movie, Exterminating Angel. Monarch (Map; Skalitzerstrasse 134; from 9pm Tue-Sat) Bonus points if you can find this upstairs bar right away. Tip: the unmarked entrance is next to the Döner shop near the Kaiser’s supermarket.

East of here, on Marienplatz, is the Dicker Turm (Fat Tower), with walls almost 6m thick in some places. Walking south on Steinstrasse, past the Frauenkirche, you’ll soon reach the Karstadt department store (An der Frauenkirche 5-7), which would be unremarkable were it not for its amazing art-nouveau interior, canopied by a kaleidoscopic glass ceiling. Another architectural delicacy from the same period is the sparkling Strassburg Passage, a light-flooded shopping arcade connecting Berliner Strasse and Jacobstrasse. UNTERMARKT & EASTERN ALTSTADT The most beautiful patrician houses flank the Untermarkt, linked to Obermarkt by Brüderstrasse.

Pick from a selection of stout Rhenish dishes to keep you grounded. Brauhaus Peters (Map; 257 3950; Mühlengasse 1; dishes €4-13; 11am-12.30am) This relative youngster draws a somewhat less raucous crowd knocking back their Kölsch in a web of highly individualistic nooks, including a room lidded by a kaleidoscopic stained-glass ceiling. On Tuesday, insiders invade for the potato pancakes, freshly made and topped with anything from apple compote to smoked salmon. Früh am Dom (Map; 261 30; Am Hof 12-14; breakfast €4-13, mains €4-20) This warren of a beer hall near the Dom epitomises Cologne earthiness. Sit inside amid loads of knick-knacks or on the terrace next to a fountain.


Northern California Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, big-box store, bike sharing, Burning Man, buy and hold, California gold rush, California high-speed rail, call centre, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, clean water, company town, dark matter, Day of the Dead, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Frank Gehry, friendly fire, gentrification, gigafactory, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Google bus, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, housing crisis, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, Lyft, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Mason jar, McMansion, means of production, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, Peoples Temple, Port of Oakland, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, the built environment, trade route, transcontinental railway, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Whole Earth Catalog, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional

oPalace HotelHOTEL$$$ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %415-512-1111; www.sfpalace.com; 2 New Montgomery St; r from $300; aiWs#; mMontgomery, ZMontgomery) The 1906 landmark Palace remains a monument to turn-of-the-century grandeur, with 100-year-old Austrian-crystal chandeliers and Maxfield Parrish paintings. Cushy (if staid) accommodations cater to expense-account travelers, but prices drop at weekends. Even if you're not staying here, visit the opulent Garden Court to sip tea beneath a translucent glass ceiling. There's also a spa; kids love the big pool. North Beach & Chinatown Pacific Tradewinds HostelHOSTEL$ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %415-433-7970; www.san-francisco-hostel.com; 680 Sacramento St; dm $35-45; hfront desk 8am-midnight; niW; g1, jCalifornia, ZMontgomery) San Francisco's smartest all-dorm hostel has a blue-and-white nautical theme, a fully equipped kitchen (free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all day!)

Spalding HouseB&B$ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %559-739-7877; www.thespaldinghouse.com; 631 N Encina St; s/d $85/95; aW) Built by a lumber baron, this atmospheric 1901 Colonial Revival–style home offers three cozy guest suites with private sitting areas and gorgeous details, such as mosaic-tiled bathrooms, a stained-glass ceiling or a sleigh bed. Char-Cu-Te-RieCAFE$ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %559-733-7902; www.char-cu-te-rie.com; 211 W Main St; mains $6-9; h8am-3pm) Truffled eggs on brioche French toast, sourdough sandwiches spread with goat cheese and sweet figs, maple-bacon popcorn, date and Nutella ice-cream shakes and artisan coffee are just a few of the treats at this downtown storefront.


The America That Reagan Built by J. David Woodard

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Boeing 747, Bonfire of the Vanities, business cycle, colonial rule, Columbine, corporate raider, cuban missile crisis, Deng Xiaoping, friendly fire, glass ceiling, global village, Gordon Gekko, gun show loophole, guns versus butter model, income inequality, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, junk bonds, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, laissez-faire capitalism, late capitalism, Live Aid, Marc Andreessen, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, new economy, no-fly zone, Oklahoma City bombing, Parents Music Resource Center, postindustrial economy, Ralph Nader, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Rubik’s Cube, Savings and loan crisis, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, stem cell, Strategic Defense Initiative, Ted Kaczynski, The Predators' Ball, Timothy McVeigh, Tipper Gore, trickle-down economics, women in the workforce, Y2K, young professional

By gaining their political consciousness in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the baby boomers developed an iconoclastic frame of reference and were prone to be more self-indulgent and politically independent than their parents.1 The divorce rate peaked in 1981, and the new decade saw the advent of the term single mothers, where women liberated from being called housewives reached ‘‘glass ceilings’’ at work and faced surly teenagers at home. The country reveled in emerging social distinctions, as wine-drinking became fashionable and the president declared that he did not like broccoli. In the 1990s, the century was 142 THE AMERICA THAT REAGAN BUILT ending, and many Americans preferred to think about life as it would be, rather than what it had been.


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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

affirmative action, Cass Sunstein, crack epidemic, Credit Default Swap, deindustrialization, desegregation, dumpster diving, ending welfare as we know it, fixed income, food desert, gentrification, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gunnar Myrdal, housing crisis, housing justice, informal economy, Jane Jacobs, jobless men, Kickstarter, late fees, Lewis Mumford, mass incarceration, New Urbanism, payday loans, price discrimination, profit motive, rent control, statistical model, superstar cities, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, thinkpad, upwardly mobile, working poor, young professional

When it was time, Vanetta took a seat next to her public defender, a foot-tapping white man in a plain black suit. The courtroom didn’t look like the kind you see on television, those open-air theaters with balconies, large ceiling fans, and people crowded into wooden pews. It was a small space, separated from the audience by a thick wall of glass. Ceiling speakers broadcast court proceedings to onlookers. The prosecution went first, represented by a fit, pink-faced assistant district attorney with thinning hair and trimmed beard. Many things about Vanetta impressed him. She had not been arrested before and had “some employment history.” “She apparently attended school into the eleventh grade.


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Straphanger by Taras Grescoe

active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, Albert Einstein, big-box store, bike sharing, Boeing 747, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, City Beautiful movement, classic study, company town, congestion charging, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, correlation does not imply causation, David Brooks, deindustrialization, Donald Shoup, East Village, edge city, Enrique Peñalosa, extreme commuting, financial deregulation, fixed-gear, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, housing crisis, hydraulic fracturing, indoor plumbing, intermodal, invisible hand, it's over 9,000, Jane Jacobs, Japanese asset price bubble, jitney, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Kitchen Debate, laissez-faire capitalism, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, McMansion, megacity, megaproject, messenger bag, mortgage tax deduction, Network effects, New Urbanism, obamacare, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, Own Your Own Home, parking minimums, peak oil, pension reform, Peter Calthorpe, Ponzi scheme, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, Skype, streetcar suburb, subprime mortgage crisis, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transit-oriented development, union organizing, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, working poor, young professional, Zipcar

In all New York, there is only one other place remotely like it: the time-warp temple of hygienic tile that is the Grand Central Oyster Bar. Both were designed by a Spanish architect known for bringing the technique of tiled vaulted ceilings common in Catalonia to America. During the Second World War, the station’s magnificent leaded glass ceiling was blacked out in anticipation of air raids; it closed permanently in 1945, because its platform was too sharply curved to handle longer trains. Waving his flashlight at waist height, Anyansi signaled the driver of the next train to pick us up. We rounded another curve, and, in a Viewmaster’s click, were back from the rabbit hole to the workaday, no-nonsense domain of the MTA.


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Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market by Steven Drobny

Abraham Maslow, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, asset allocation, Berlin Wall, Bonfire of the Vanities, Bretton Woods, business cycle, buy and hold, buy low sell high, capital controls, central bank independence, commoditize, commodity trading advisor, corporate governance, correlation coefficient, Credit Default Swap, currency risk, diversification, diversified portfolio, family office, financial engineering, fixed income, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global macro, Greenspan put, high batting average, implied volatility, index fund, inflation targeting, interest rate derivative, inventory management, inverted yield curve, John Meriwether, junk bonds, land bank, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, managed futures, margin call, market bubble, Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager, Maui Hawaii, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, moral hazard, Myron Scholes, new economy, Nick Leeson, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, out of africa, panic early, paper trading, Paul Samuelson, Peter Thiel, price anchoring, proprietary trading, purchasing power parity, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, reserve currency, risk free rate, risk tolerance, risk-adjusted returns, risk/return, rolodex, Sharpe ratio, short selling, Silicon Valley, tail risk, The Wisdom of Crowds, too big to fail, transaction costs, value at risk, Vision Fund, yield curve, zero-coupon bond, zero-sum game

I’m actually very proud of that and I generally sleep very well. Do you think the amount of capital allocated to traders has an effect on their performance? Most definitely. I’ve seen it many times at GS.A trader has had a good run, they put pressure on themselves to take more risk, and they become totally overwhelmed. It’s as if they have a glass ceiling. I don’t know if it’s an internal problem or something else.You probably can’t rationalize it but I know you can’t push people to do more than they want to do. I’ve spent a lot of time working with some of these people, saying, “Up your risk”; they’ve tried and it was generally disastrous. I don’t know anyone who’s made a quantum leap in a short space of time.


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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Airbnb, altcoin, Alvin Toffler, asset-backed security, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, bitcoin, Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, blockchain, Blythe Masters, Bretton Woods, business logic, business process, buy and hold, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon credits, carbon footprint, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, commoditize, commons-based peer production, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, currency risk, decentralized internet, digital capitalism, disintermediation, disruptive innovation, distributed ledger, do well by doing good, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, driverless car, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, failed state, fiat currency, financial innovation, Firefox, first square of the chessboard, first square of the chessboard / second half of the chessboard, future of work, Future Shock, Galaxy Zoo, general purpose technology, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Google bus, GPS: selective availability, Hacker News, Hernando de Soto, Higgs boson, holacracy, income inequality, independent contractor, informal economy, information asymmetry, information security, intangible asset, interest rate swap, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, Kodak vs Instagram, Lean Startup, litecoin, Lyft, M-Pesa, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, microcredit, mobile money, money market fund, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, new economy, Oculus Rift, off grid, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, peer-to-peer model, performance metric, Peter Thiel, planetary scale, Ponzi scheme, prediction markets, price mechanism, Productivity paradox, QR code, quantitative easing, radical decentralization, ransomware, Ray Kurzweil, renewable energy credits, rent-seeking, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Satoshi Nakamoto, search costs, Second Machine Age, seigniorage, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart contracts, smart grid, Snow Crash, social graph, social intelligence, social software, standardized shipping container, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, supply-chain management, systems thinking, TaskRabbit, TED Talk, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The Nature of the Firm, The Soul of a New Machine, The Wisdom of Crowds, transaction costs, Turing complete, Turing test, Tyler Cowen, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, unbanked and underbanked, underbanked, unorthodox policies, vertical integration, Vitalik Buterin, wealth creators, X Prize, Y2K, Yochai Benkler, Zipcar

It means an end to social, economic, and racial hegemony, an end to discrimination based on health, gender, sexual identification, or sexual preference. It means ending barriers to access because of where a person lives, whether a person spent a night in jail, or how a person voted, but also an end to glass ceilings, and good ol’ boys’ clubs of countless varieties. DESIGNING THE FUTURE Our conversation with Ann Cavoukian inspired us to follow up on Germany’s “Never again” promise. We came across the words of German federal president Joachim Gauck on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism, victims of Hitler’s regime.


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Frommer's Seattle 2010 by Karl Samson

airport security, British Empire, company town, flying shuttle, Frank Gehry, glass ceiling, global village, haute cuisine, land bank, machine readable, place-making, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, white picket fence

The lobby, with its bar, billiards table, and travel-themed Art Deco furnishings, feels like it could be in Singapore or Nairobi; you half expect Humphrey Bogart to be sipping a gin and tonic in the corner. Guest rooms are decorated in keeping with the historic, adventure-travel theme. Be sure to sneak a peek inside the Northern Lights Dome Room, a grand hall with original frescoes, a stained-glass ceiling, and lots of ornate plasterwork and gilding. 700 Third Ave., Seattle, WA 98104. 80 0/222-TREE or 20 6/340-0340. Fax 20 6/340-0349. www.arcticclubhotel.com. 120 units. $129–$319 double. Children 17 and under stay free in parent’s room. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. Valet parking $29. Pets accepted. Amenities: Restaurant, lounge; concierge; exercise room; room service.


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The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--And Their Architects--Shape the World by Deyan Sudjic

Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, bread and circuses, British Empire, call centre, colonial rule, Columbine, cuban missile crisis, dematerialisation, Deng Xiaoping, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Frank Gehry, glass ceiling, Great Leap Forward, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, haute cuisine, megastructure, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, oil shock, Peter Eisenman, Ronald Reagan, Socratic dialogue, urban planning, urban renewal, V2 rocket, Victor Gruen

Past the Chancellery guards and out of the way of the floodlights, Ribbentrop ushered Hacha across the porch and into a windowless hall beyond, its walls inlaid with the pagan imagery of mosaic eagles grasping burning torches garlanded with oak leaves, its floors slippery with marble. There was no furniture, nor even a trace of carpet to soften the severity of the hall. A clouded glass ceiling floated over the marble, electrically lit from within to cast a shadowless light, in an inescapably modern, almost art-deco gesture. Even Hitler could not shut out every trace of the contemporary world. This was the space that the sculptor Arno Breker described as ‘permeated with the fire of political power’.


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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte

8-hour work day, affirmative action, Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness, blue-collar work, Burning Man, business cycle, call centre, cognitive dissonance, David Brooks, deliberate practice, desegregation, DevOps, East Village, Edward Glaeser, epigenetics, fear of failure, feminist movement, financial independence, game design, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, Great Leap Forward, helicopter parent, hiring and firing, income inequality, job satisfaction, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, labor-force participation, machine readable, meta-analysis, new economy, profit maximization, Results Only Work Environment, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, sensible shoes, sexual politics, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Jobs, tech worker, TED Talk, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, women in the workforce, work culture , working poor, Zipcar, éminence grise

Williams, fifty-nine, knows the syndrome intimately. She began her own career as an environmental lawyer. “Then I had a baby.” She saw her home life revert to traditional gender roles and fall out of balance. “You want equality in the workplace? Die childless at thirty. You won’t have hit either the glass ceiling or the maternal wall,” she says. “People say there will never be equality in the workplace until there’s equality in the home. But to me, it’s really the reverse. There will never be equality at home until there’s equality in the workplace, until we redefine the ideal worker. Because until then, men will feel they have no choice but to meet that ideal, even if they don’t believe in it, because they want to be ‘successful’.”


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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb, Kingfisher Editors

British Empire, discovery of penicillin, first-past-the-post, glass ceiling, Great Leap Forward, two and twenty

The mile event was not scheduled until six o’clock, which left plenty of time for the weather to change, but Bannister was already leaning toward putting off the attempt altogether. Walking to nearby Paddington Station, he waded through the sidewalks full of people wearing raincoats and carrying umbrellas. The station was dark and noisy and left one choking for breath. With the sun absent from the sky, the soot veneer on the arched glass ceiling let in very little light. Whistles blew, and “all aboard” announcements were shouted down the platforms, while smoke coughed out from train engines. After finding his platform on the information board, Bannister hurried to his train, ready to settle in for the sixty-three-mile journey he had taken so many times before.


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Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions by Elizabeth Ghaffari

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, AltaVista, Bear Stearns, business cycle, business process, cloud computing, Columbine, compensation consultant, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, dark matter, deal flow, do what you love, family office, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial independence, follow your passion, glass ceiling, Grace Hopper, high net worth, John Elkington, knowledge worker, Larry Ellison, Long Term Capital Management, longitudinal study, Oklahoma City bombing, performance metric, pink-collar, profit maximization, profit motive, recommendation engine, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, thinkpad, trickle-down economics, urban planning, women in the workforce, young professional

Ghaffari: Do you give the same type of advice to men as you give to women? Horan: I do. Ghaffari: Where do you think is the area of greatest opportunity for careers for, especially for women at this point? Horan: I really do think that women can choose to do anything they want to do these days. Sure, the glass ceiling does still exist in some industries, but I don't think that should necessarily stop you if that's something you have a passion for. When I look around a company like IBM or any of the many companies that I do business with, there are women in senior leadership positions in many industries these days.


pages: 458 words: 135,206

CTOs at Work by Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel, Gary Donaldson

Amazon Web Services, Andy Carvin, bioinformatics, business intelligence, business process, call centre, centre right, cloud computing, computer vision, connected car, crowdsourcing, data acquisition, distributed generation, do what you love, domain-specific language, functional programming, glass ceiling, Hacker News, hype cycle, Neil Armstrong, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, pattern recognition, Pluto: dwarf planet, QR code, Richard Feynman, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart grid, smart meter, software patent, systems thinking, thinkpad, web application, zero day, zero-sum game

Siegel: Amy, we'd like to begin with your journey to CTO, and it's my understanding that you have multiple technical degrees. The question is, given when you went to school, what motivated you to develop a career in science and technology because at that time, if memory serves me correctly, there was a glass ceiling for women regarding getting into science and technology? Alving: I am a very curious person. I like to know how the world works. I didn't actually know what engineers did growing up because my whole family was in medicine. So I knew a lot about what physicians did. We talked about that at the dinner table.


pages: 447 words: 141,811

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Admiral Zheng, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Inconvenient Truth, Apollo 11, Atahualpa, British Empire, cognitive dissonance, correlation does not imply causation, credit crunch, David Graeber, Easter island, Edmond Halley, European colonialism, Francisco Pizarro, glass ceiling, global village, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, income per capita, invention of gunpowder, Isaac Newton, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, Kickstarter, liberal capitalism, life extension, low interest rates, Mahatma Gandhi, megacity, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Neil Armstrong, out of africa, personalized medicine, Ponzi scheme, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, stem cell, Steven Pinker, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, urban planning, zero-sum game

Second, even if people belonging to different classes develop exactly the same abilities, they are unlikely to enjoy equal success because they will have to play the game by different rules. If, in British-ruled India, an Untouchable, a Brahmin, a Catholic Irishman and a Protestant Englishman had somehow developed exactly the same business acumen, they still would not have had the same chance of becoming rich. The economic game was rigged by legal restrictions and unofficial glass ceilings. The Vicious Circle All societies are based on imagined hierarchies, but not necessarily on the same hierarchies. What accounts for the differences? Why did traditional Indian society classify people according to caste, Ottoman society according to religion, and American society according to race?


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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Airbnb, centre right, drug harm reduction, failed state, glass ceiling, global pandemic, illegal immigration, low interest rates, mass incarceration, McJob, moral panic, Naomi Klein, placebo effect, profit motive, public intellectual, RAND corporation, Rat Park, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, San Francisco homelessness, science of happiness, Stephen Fry, Steven Pinker, traveling salesman, vertical integration, War on Poverty

She drove the ninety miles to work every morning talking to her colleague Ed Toatley,2 a goateed African American undercover narcotics agent who had grown up just outside Baltimore. He was head of the union, and he stood up to the encrusted sexism on the force as Leigh rose higher and higher, cracking a series of glass ceilings. Yet the work Leigh was most driven by was taking on the drug gangs. This was what got her out of bed in the morning. She was sure that her roadside stops and drug busts were disrupting the supply routes through Maryland—and this meant there would be fewer gangsters, fewer addicts, less violence, and less misery in the world.


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A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook

Berlin Wall, British Empire, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, carbon footprint, Celtic Tiger, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, company town, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, Edward Glaeser, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial innovation, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, indoor plumbing, joint-stock company, land reform, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Urbanism, open economy, Parag Khanna, Pearl River Delta, Potemkin village, profit motive, rent control, Shenzhen special economic zone , SimCity, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, starchitect, Suez canal 1869, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal, working poor

As its editor, a careerist who kowtowed to the censors told his staff, “Theater, exhibitions, shopping mall, flea market, inns, pastry shops—that’s your field and don’t take a single step beyond it.” The eager meritocrats who flocked to the city soon grew frustrated as they bumped up against its aristocratic glass ceilings. Some sought refuge in politics—a dangerous choice—while others turned to the arts. From the city’s stunted reality grew a limitless dreamworld. Among the ambitious provincials drawn to the imperial capital was Nikolai Gogol, from Ukraine. In his 1835 story “Nevsky Prospect,” the bachelor narrator initially extols the wonders of St.


Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", business climate, gentrification, glass ceiling, hiring and firing, independent contractor, informal economy, Jane Jacobs, labor-force participation, low-wage service sector, new economy, refrigerator car, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, urban renewal, working poor, Y2K

The majority live and work in Maquis Park or in an adjoining neighborhood, and their stores have generally been located within a two- or three-mile radius of Maquis Park, in other equally impoverished black neighborhoods. These store owners have tended to remain modest retailers, offering a fairly circumscribed range of goods and services, be it clothing, take-out food, liquor, hairstyling, real estate brokerage, social services, or car maintenance. The majority are, not surprisingly, men. The "glass ceiling" that has prevented women from entering the halls of corporate America and that has limited their mobility within that arena can also be found in the small business world. Although on West Street there are a few women who own and manage retail stores—such as Ola's Hair Salon— they are few in number.


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Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

clean water, glass ceiling, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, low earth orbit, messenger bag, microplastics / micro fibres, Neil Armstrong, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, space junk, urban sprawl

Poppy’s radio crackled under her bed, spitting out a few bars of music, the limpid rise of a melody audible for just a moment before being consumed by static. She was not in her bed and neither was Astrid. Juno headed to the greenhouse, and when she opened the hatch the sound of her footsteps echoed in the gloom. It was like a darkened cathedral. Through the vaulted glass ceiling she could see the spinning rings of the other decks and, beyond them, the stars cast a cold constant light. They were running out of air. Bright splinters of pain had begun to burst behind her temples. When mountain climbers ventured too high into the upper atmosphere, and altitude sickness set in, it felt like a hangover, then like carbon-monoxide poisoning.


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The Search for Life on Mars by Elizabeth Howell

affirmative action, Alfred Russel Wallace, Apollo 11, British Empire, dark matter, double helix, fake news, financial independence, follow your passion, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, Google Earth, independent contractor, invention of the telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, John von Neumann, Louis Pasteur, Mars Rover, Menlo Park, Neil Armstrong, New Journalism, Pluto: dwarf planet, Ronald Reagan, Skype

Both were doomed, she says, because they were too ambitious, technologically speaking. The project engineers “worked their tails off,” but it didn’t matter. A later inquiry noted that, exactly as she had warned, both had been given 70 percent of the budget they actually needed to get the job done properly. While Donna Shirley herself had broken through a glass ceiling, “Faster, Better, Cheaper” had crashed through a floor. She took early retirement in 1998, knowing full well what would happen. “I was kind of sad to do it,” she says. “I didn’t want to be associated with the failures.” Eventually, she moved back to her native Oklahoma, where she became assistant dean of engineering at her alma mater.


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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester

agricultural Revolution, British Empire, Cape to Cairo, climate change refugee, colonial rule, Donald Trump, Eratosthenes, European colonialism, Fellow of the Royal Society, Garrett Hardin, glass ceiling, Haight Ashbury, invention of the steam engine, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, Jones Act, Khyber Pass, land reform, land tenure, land value tax, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, oil shale / tar sands, Ralph Nader, rewilding, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, Scramble for Africa, sovereign wealth fund, stakhanovite, Tragedy of the Commons, white flight, white picket fence

From its inception, left-wing parties dominated the newly established body, and in 2003 its members passed legislation that encouraged the communal ownership of land—a move that had the effect of starting the dilution of some private holdings and establishing, especially on some of the larger islands, a more dispersed system of ownership. But in the view of the more radically minded, this law dissembled, did not go far enough—it encouraged but it did not mandate communal ownership. And so matters did not start to change profoundly until 2011, when the Scottish National Party (SNP) broke through the nativist glass ceiling, won a majority in Parliament, and began to bulldoze its reforming way through the country’s social system. Of all the SNP’s various revolutionary plans for Scotland, the one that in the view of the party chiefs would most obviously allow the country to become more equitable was always the plan for fundamental land reform.


Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2021 United States Capitol attack, 3D printing, anti-communist, anti-globalists, autism spectrum disorder, benefit corporation, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blood diamond, Boris Johnson, Boycotts of Israel, Cambridge Analytica, capitalist realism, ChatGPT, citizen journalism, Climategate, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis actor, critical race theory, dark matter, deep learning, deepfake, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, fake news, false flag, feminist movement, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, global supply chain, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, hive mind, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet Archive, Jeffrey Epstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lab leak, Lewis Mumford, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, mass incarceration, medical residency, military-industrial complex, moral panic, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, neurotypical, new economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Parler "social media", pattern recognition, Peter Thiel, phenotype, profit motive, QAnon, QR code, Ralph Waldo Emerson, randomized controlled trial, Rosa Parks, Scientific racism, Scramble for Africa, shared worldview, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Slavoj Žižek, smart cities, social distancing, Steve Bannon, surveillance capitalism, tech billionaire, tech bro, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, trickle-down economics, union organizing, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wayback Machine, women in the workforce

There were just thirty of us there in the room; that’s how early it was in her fame. We sat cross-legged on cheap broadloom carpet listening as Wolf told us that powerful forces had developed unattainable beauty ideals at the precise moment when young women like us were finally on the cusp of breaking through glass ceilings that had held our mothers back. That was why so many of us starved ourselves, gagged ourselves, wasted valuable brain cells hating our bodies or dreaming of plastic surgery instead of doing the work we were there to do. It was exhausting us, distracting us, robbing us of our rightful power and place in the world.


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How Asia Works by Joe Studwell

affirmative action, anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, bank run, banking crisis, barriers to entry, borderless world, Bretton Woods, British Empire, call centre, capital controls, central bank independence, collective bargaining, crony capitalism, cross-subsidies, currency manipulation / currency intervention, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, deindustrialization, demographic dividend, Deng Xiaoping, failed state, financial deregulation, financial repression, foreign exchange controls, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, income inequality, income per capita, industrial robot, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Arrow, land reform, land tenure, large denomination, liberal capitalism, low interest rates, market fragmentation, megaproject, non-tariff barriers, offshore financial centre, oil shock, open economy, passive investing, purchasing power parity, rent control, rent-seeking, Right to Buy, Ronald Coase, South China Sea, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TSMC, urban sprawl, Washington Consensus, working-age population

Then, in 1957, the family acquired Hacienda Luisita with a government loan on the specific condition that the farmland would be resold ‘at reasonable terms and conditions’ to the tenants.64 The Cojuangcos were supposed to retain only the large sugar mill on the estate. But the undertaking to sell off the land was never honoured and the Cojuangcos were never held to account. That such people can become presidents – Cory’s son Noynoy is the current president, as this book goes to press – places a glass ceiling above the possibilities for Filipino development. Official success The Philippine government claims that the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law has met most of its national targets. According to official data, by the end of 2006, 6.8 million hectares of a targeted 8.2 million hectares of farmland were subjected to land reform to the benefit of 4.1 million rural households.65 This sounds like north-east Asia.


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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer, August Cole

3D printing, Admiral Zheng, air gap, augmented reality, British Empire, digital map, energy security, Firefox, glass ceiling, global reserve currency, Google Earth, Google Glasses, IFF: identification friend or foe, Just-in-time delivery, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, new economy, old-boy network, operational security, RAND corporation, reserve currency, RFID, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, space junk, stealth mode startup, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, Virgin Galactic, Wall-E, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, WikiLeaks, zero day, zero-sum game

What he saw on his goggles was only for him, but the jerky gestures attested to a problem. On the holographic screen, the black forms ran in and out of the atrium, dropping off books in what was now a burning pyre in the middle of the room. “Fudge!” shouted Taj, still the innocent little boy at heart. “Gosh-darn mother-fudging network!” The library’s glass ceiling crashed in and water began to come through, the simulated network’s automated defenses now reacting. First came a heavy rain, which the wraiths tried to shoot fire back at, the visualization of their counterprograms, but then came a vast, unending deluge, as if a river had been diverted and was pouring into the atrium.


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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", "World Economic Forum" Davos, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Berlin Wall, blood diamond, BRICs, colonial rule, crony capitalism, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Firefox, forensic accounting, friendly fire, glass ceiling, Global Witness, Great Leap Forward, illegal immigration, joint-stock company, low interest rates, market bubble, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Nick Leeson, no-fly zone, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, Pearl River Delta, place-making, rising living standards, Ronald Reagan, Shenzhen special economic zone , Skype, special economic zone, Stephen Hawking, trade liberalization, trade route, Transnistria, unemployed young men, upwardly mobile

In fact, by avoiding any mention of the elephant in the living room, they facilitate its portrayal by anti-Semites as a jackal. Although the Soviet Union was renowned for its antipathy toward most national identities that threatened its idealized image of homus sovieticus, it did construct one specific barrier for Jews—the glass ceiling. In virtually all the central party and state offices, in almost all industrial branches, and in most places of learning, Jews were systematically prevented from reaching the top. There were exceptions to this rule—Kaganovich (one of Stalin’s unloved Politburo colleagues) and, in the 1980s, Evgeni Primakov emerged as an extremely influential political figure, having prophylactically discarded his birth name, Yonah Finkelshtein.


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No Such Thing as Society by Andy McSmith

"there is no alternative" (TINA), anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Bob Geldof, Boris Johnson, British Empire, Brixton riot, Bullingdon Club, call centre, cuban missile crisis, Etonian, F. W. de Klerk, Farzad Bazoft, feminist movement, fixed income, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, friendly fire, full employment, glass ceiling, God and Mammon, greed is good, illegal immigration, index card, John Bercow, Kickstarter, liberal capitalism, light touch regulation, Live Aid, loadsamoney, long peace, means of production, Mikhail Gorbachev, mortgage debt, mutually assured destruction, negative equity, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, North Sea oil, Northern Rock, old-boy network, popular capitalism, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, Sloane Ranger, South Sea Bubble, spread of share-ownership, Stephen Fry, strikebreaker, Suez crisis 1956, The Chicago School, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban decay, Winter of Discontent, young professional

In 1975, twelve out of fourteen managers of First Division clubs responded to a survey by saying they would never sign up a black player; by 1990, there were 175 blacks among the top 2,000 professional footballers.50 However, they routinely endured racist abuse from the supporters of opposing clubs, symbolized by a famous photograph of John Barnes in full Liverpool kit back-heeling a banana that had been thrown at him by an Everton fan. Yet, for all these problems, the glass ceilings were beginning to crack. There were signs that positions previously occupied only by whites were starting to come within reach. The first Asian judge, Mota Singh, was appointed in 1982. In 1988, John Roberts, from Sierra Leone, became Britain’s first Afro-Caribbean QC. He had been a part-time Crown Court judge since 1983.


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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon

airport security, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter, Boycotts of Israel, call centre, clean water, Donald Trump, facts on the ground, Fellow of the Royal Society, glass ceiling, land tenure, mental accounting, microdosing, Mount Scopus, Nelson Mandela, off grid, off-the-grid, Right to Buy, Skype, traveling salesman, WikiLeaks

“I was an Arab Palestinian, born in the West, searching for a language that demarginalized or uncategorized me. Hip-hop gave me a head start to speak up for myself and in my own voice. It was the realness and audacity that made it easy for me to relate to and a great way to fight cultural exile that was often unnoticed, unobserved, and unchallenged.” She has broken many glass ceilings—the Arab one, the Palestinian one, and of course the female one. “I think that Arabic hip-hop has come a long way in terms of solidifying its place as a legitimate genre in music. When I came on the scene, Palestinian hip-hop was fairly new, you could say it was an introduction to this new addition to Arabic hip-hop (after Moroccan and Algerian hip-hop).


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The Rough Guide to Barcelona 8 by Jules Brown, Rough Guides

active transport: walking or cycling, bike sharing, centre right, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, Kickstarter, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal

Here, in the lower reaches of the Raval, some of the most influential names in Catalan architecture and design came together at the beginning of the twentieth century to transform the dowdy Hotel España (c/de Sant Pau 9–11, Wwww.hotelespanya.com) – originally built in 1860 – into one of the city’s most lavish addresses. With a tiled dining room designed by Lluĺs Domènech i Montaner, a bar with an amazing marble fireplace by Eusebi Arnau, and a ballroom with a glass ceiling whose marine murals were executed by Ramon Casas, the hotel was the fashionable sensation of its day. It’s been well looked after ever since, and you can soak up the atmosphere and the decor for the price of lunch (there’s a reasonably priced menú del dia) or even stay the night – though it has to be said that the rooms are nowhere near as impressive as the public areas.


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Accelerando by Stross, Charles

book value, business cycle, call centre, carbon-based life, cellular automata, cognitive dissonance, commoditize, Conway's Game of Life, dark matter, disinformation, dumpster diving, Extropian, financial engineering, finite state, flag carrier, Flynn Effect, Future Shock, glass ceiling, gravity well, John von Neumann, junk bonds, Kickstarter, knapsack problem, Kuiper Belt, machine translation, Magellanic Cloud, mandelbrot fractal, market bubble, means of production, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Neal Stephenson, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, packet switching, performance metric, phenotype, planetary scale, Pluto: dwarf planet, quantum entanglement, reversible computing, Richard Stallman, satellite internet, SETI@home, Silicon Valley, Singularitarianism, Skinner box, slashdot, South China Sea, stem cell, technological singularity, telepresence, The Chicago School, theory of mind, Turing complete, Turing machine, Turing test, upwardly mobile, Vernor Vinge, Von Neumann architecture, warehouse robotics, web of trust, Y2K, zero-sum game

The biosphere has become surreal: small dragons have been sighted nesting in the Scottish highlands, and in the American midwest, raccoons have been caught programming microwave ovens. The computing power of the solar system is now around one thousand MIPS per gram, and is unlikely to increase in the near term – all but a fraction of one percent of the dumb matter is still locked up below the accessible planetary crusts, and the sapience/mass ratio has hit a glass ceiling that will only be broken when people, corporations, or other posthumans get around to dismantling the larger planets. A start has already been made in Jupiter orbit and the asteroid belt. Greenpeace has sent squatters to occupy Eros and Juno, but the average asteroid is now surrounded by a reef of specialized nanomachinery and debris, victims of a cosmic land grab unmatched since the days of the wild west.


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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States by Steven Ujifusa

8-hour work day, big-box store, British Empire, Charles Lindbergh, company town, computer age, Cornelius Vanderbilt, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, interchangeable parts, Malcom McLean invented shipping containers, Mercator projection, Ronald Reagan, the built environment, trade route

And so after tweaking the drawings, Taylor said he was willing to build a 1/24th scale model of the Gibbs vessel for testing in the U.S. Navy Experimental Model Basin at the Washington Navy Yard, with the admiral’s engineering staff providing full technical support for the engineering of the liner’s hull. Built in 1898 under Taylor’s direct supervision, the towing tank was 470 feet long and topped by a truss-and-glass ceiling. A motorized beam, set on parallel tracks, pulled a miniature hull through waves created at the far end of the tank. Engineers on catwalks would then evaluate the model’s performance in a variety of simulated sea conditions. Taylor also set up a key meeting with Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who had rebuffed many of Emmet’s earlier entreaties.18 Admiral Taylor, a man of full face and warm eyes, soon became William Francis Gibbs’s informal mentor and surrogate father, providing him the support and guidance that his own father never did.


San Francisco by Lonely Planet

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apple II, back-to-the-land, banking crisis, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, David Brooks, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, G4S, game design, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, messenger bag, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, retail therapy, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog, Zipcar

Palace Hotel Hotel $$$ Offline map Google map ( 415-512-1111, 800-325-3535; www.sfpalace.com; 2 New Montgomery St; r $199-329; ; & Montgomery St) The 1906 landmark Palace stands as a monument to turn-of-the-20th-century grandeur, aglow with century-old Austrian crystal chandeliers. The cushy (if staid) accommodations cater to expense-account travelers, but prices drop weekends. Even if you’re not staying here, see the opulent Garden Court , where you can sip tea beneath a translucent glass ceiling in one of Northern California’s most beautiful rooms. There’s also an on-site spa; kids love the big indoor pool. Hotel Palomar Design Hotel $$$ Offline map Google map ( 415-348-1111, 866-373-4941; www.hotelpalomar-sf.com; 12 4th St; r $199-299; ; & Powell St) The sexy Palomar is decked out with crocodile-print carpets, stripy persimmon-red chairs, chocolate-brown wood and cheetah-print robes in the closet.


The Rough Guide to Brussels 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) by Dunford, Martin.; Lee, Phil; Summer, Suzy.; Dal Molin, Loik

Berlin Wall, bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, Fall of the Berlin Wall, gentrification, glass ceiling, low cost airline, Peace of Westphalia, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning

Prémétro Bourse. Belga Queen rue Fossé aux Loups 32 T02 217 21 87. There’s no grander setting for a restaurant in the whole of Brussels: the deluxe Belga Queen occupies the former headquarters of the Crédit du Nord bank, a nineteenth-century building with a high and mighty, curved and vaulted stained-glass ceiling, and an army of Greek columns, stucco griffins and coats of arms. The revamp has added a clutch of modern sculptures and sleek modern furnishings, and the waiters are stylish in slick tabards, Belga Queen minute’s walk to get off the depressingly touristy rue des Bouchers. Daily noon– 2.45pm, 6.30–11.30pm.


The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie

anti-communist, bank run, barriers to entry, Boris Johnson, British Empire, classic study, cuban missile crisis, General Motors Futurama, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Isaac Newton, Jeremy Corbyn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mahatma Gandhi, offshore financial centre, Picturephone, Republic of Letters, Rosa Parks, South Sea Bubble, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, white flight, women in the workforce

Shortly afterwards, the Convention finally voted to allow any Lodge that wished to do so to initiate women. Olivia is far from triumphant about what she has achieved. There is still resistance in many provincial Lodges to admitting women, and a desire to keep women confined to Lodge level and away from the senior positions in the Grand Orient: ‘the glass ceiling is worse than in profane society’. The splendid Museum of Freemasonry on the ground floor of the Grand Orient building betrays a collective embarrassment about what Olivia has done. A great deal of space is given over to the Adoption Lodges of the eighteenth century. There is a beautiful female apron, for example, with the Tree of Knowledge and the snake printed onto its flimsy, faded silk.


Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die by Giles Milton

Charles Lindbergh, Etonian, friendly fire, glass ceiling, Khartoum Gordon

She begged Thérèse to help her out of the rubble, but Thérèse remained curiously silent, ‘her right arm around my waist’.14 Denise’s blouse was growing wet but she couldn’t tell if it was water or blood. In the centre of town, Geneviève Vion was in the midst of doing household chores when her entire neighbourhood was kicked to oblivion. She and her husband lived above the famous Passage Bellivet, a covered shopping market known for its fin-de-siècle glass ceiling. Now, that ceiling crashed to the ground in a lethal cascade. Madame Vion was still reeling from the force of the blast. ‘All the windows of our shops were blown out, and inside the house a thick cloud of dust poured from the walls and ceilings.’15 When she peered outside, she saw that the Monoprix supermarket, just thirty metres away, was a raging inferno.


San Francisco by Lonely Planet

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apple II, back-to-the-land, banking crisis, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, David Brooks, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, G4S, game design, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, messenger bag, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, retail therapy, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog, Zipcar

Palace Hotel Hotel $$$ Offline map Google map ( 415-512-1111, 800-325-3535; www.sfpalace.com; 2 New Montgomery St; r $199-329; ; & Montgomery St) The 1906 landmark Palace stands as a monument to turn-of-the-20th-century grandeur, aglow with century-old Austrian crystal chandeliers. The cushy (if staid) accommodations cater to expense-account travelers, but prices drop weekends. Even if you’re not staying here, see the opulent Garden Court , where you can sip tea beneath a translucent glass ceiling in one of Northern California’s most beautiful rooms. There’s also an on-site spa; kids love the big indoor pool. Hotel Palomar Design Hotel $$$ Offline map Google map ( 415-348-1111, 866-373-4941; www.hotelpalomar-sf.com; 12 4th St; r $199-299; ; & Powell St) The sexy Palomar is decked out with crocodile-print carpets, stripy persimmon-red chairs, chocolate-brown wood and cheetah-print robes in the closet.


Eastern USA by Lonely Planet

1960s counterculture, active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, Bretton Woods, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, collective bargaining, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, glass ceiling, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, immigration reform, information trail, interchangeable parts, jitney, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, license plate recognition, machine readable, Mason jar, mass immigration, McMansion, megacity, Menlo Park, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, obamacare, Quicken Loans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, the built environment, the High Line, the payments system, three-martini lunch, transcontinental railway, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, Works Progress Administration, young professional

The crown is again open to the public – numbers are limited, however, so reservations are required, as far in advance as possible. For those without crown reservations, a visit to Statue of Liberty National Monument means you can wander the grounds and enjoy the view from the 16-story observation deck; a specially designed glass ceiling lets you look up into the statue’s striking interior. The trip to its island, via ferry, is usually visited in conjunction with nearby Ellis Island. Ferries ( 201-604-2800, 877-523-9849; www.statuecruises.com; adult/child $13/5; every 30min 9am-5pm, extended summer hr) leave from Battery Park.

DOWNTOWN Union Station Hotel HOTEL $$$ ( 615-726-1001; www.unionstationhotelnashville.com; 1001 Broadway; r from $209; ) This soaring Romanesque stone castle was Nashville’s train station back in the days when travel was a grand affair; today’s it’s downtown’s most iconic hotel. The vaulted lobby is dressed in peach and gold with inlaid marble floors and a stained-glass ceiling . Rooms are tastefully modern, with flat-screen TVs and deep soaking tubs. Parking costs $20. Hermitage Hotel HOTEL $$$ ( 615-244-3121, 888-888-9414; www.thehermitagehotel.com; 231 6th Ave N; r from $259; ) Nashville’s first million-dollar hotel was a hit with the socialites when it opened in 1910.


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Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity by Francis Fukuyama

Alvin Toffler, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, blue-collar work, business climate, business cycle, capital controls, classic study, collective bargaining, corporate governance, corporate raider, creative destruction, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, deskilling, double entry bookkeeping, equal pay for equal work, European colonialism, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global village, Gunnar Myrdal, hiring and firing, industrial robot, Jane Jacobs, job satisfaction, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kanban, Kenneth Arrow, land reform, liberal capitalism, liberation theology, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, mittelstand, price mechanism, profit maximization, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Ronald Coase, scientific management, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Nature of the Firm, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transaction costs, transfer pricing, traveling salesman, union organizing, vertical integration, W. E. B. Du Bois

In Hong Kong or Taipei, the retreats and common vacations would be reserved for family members only, or perhaps occasionally for larger kinship groups.36 Nonfamily managers in Chinese companies are not given large equity stakes in their businesses and often complain of a lack of openness when dealing with the boss. Furthermore, they usually hit a glass ceiling in promotion, since a family member will always be preferred for important positions. In other words, the problem of nepotism, which Weber and others saw as a severe constraint on modernization, has not disappeared from Chinese economic life despite the remarkable recent economic growth of Chinese societies.


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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", 4chan, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, AlphaGo, Alvin Roth, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Robotics, Amazon Web Services, AOL-Time Warner, artificial general intelligence, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, basic income, behavioural economics, benefit corporation, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Bill Joy: nanobots, bitcoin, Blitzscaling, blockchain, book value, Bretton Woods, Brewster Kahle, British Empire, business process, call centre, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, carbon tax, Carl Icahn, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Clayton Christensen, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, collateralized debt obligation, commoditize, computer vision, congestion pricing, corporate governance, corporate raider, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, Danny Hillis, data acquisition, data science, deep learning, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Dennis Ritchie, deskilling, DevOps, Didi Chuxing, digital capitalism, disinformation, do well by doing good, Donald Davies, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Erik Brynjolfsson, fake news, Filter Bubble, Firefox, Flash crash, Free Software Foundation, fulfillment center, full employment, future of work, George Akerlof, gig economy, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goodhart's law, Google Glasses, Gordon Gekko, gravity well, greed is good, Greyball, Guido van Rossum, High speed trading, hiring and firing, Home mortgage interest deduction, Hyperloop, income inequality, independent contractor, index fund, informal economy, information asymmetry, Internet Archive, Internet of things, invention of movable type, invisible hand, iterative process, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, jitney, job automation, job satisfaction, John Bogle, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment, John Zimmer (Lyft cofounder), Kaizen: continuous improvement, Ken Thompson, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, Kim Stanley Robinson, knowledge worker, Kodak vs Instagram, Lao Tzu, Larry Ellison, Larry Wall, Lean Startup, Leonard Kleinrock, Lyft, machine readable, machine translation, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, McMansion, microbiome, microservices, minimum viable product, mortgage tax deduction, move fast and break things, Network effects, new economy, Nicholas Carr, Nick Bostrom, obamacare, Oculus Rift, OpenAI, OSI model, Overton Window, packet switching, PageRank, pattern recognition, Paul Buchheit, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer model, Ponzi scheme, post-truth, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, randomized controlled trial, RFC: Request For Comment, Richard Feynman, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Gordon, Robert Metcalfe, Ronald Coase, Rutger Bregman, Salesforce, Sam Altman, school choice, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, self-driving car, SETI@home, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, Skype, smart contracts, Snapchat, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, social web, software as a service, software patent, spectrum auction, speech recognition, Stephen Hawking, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, stock buybacks, strong AI, synthetic biology, TaskRabbit, telepresence, the built environment, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, The future is already here, The Future of Employment, the map is not the territory, The Nature of the Firm, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Davenport, Tony Fadell, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, transcontinental railway, transportation-network company, Travis Kalanick, trickle-down economics, two-pizza team, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, ubercab, universal basic income, US Airways Flight 1549, VA Linux, warehouse automation, warehouse robotics, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, We are the 99%, web application, Whole Earth Catalog, winner-take-all economy, women in the workforce, Y Combinator, yellow journalism, zero-sum game, Zipcar

Or perhaps we are just living in a new “post-truth” world, where appeals to emotion carry more weight than facts. The democratization not just of media distribution but also of its creation played a major role. Colin Megill, founder of pol.is, a service focused on creating better public dialogue, told me that his mother, a doctor who worked her whole life to break the glass ceiling, was beset by doubt about Hillary Clinton and had been especially influenced by a video claiming that her aide Huma Abedin had been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a video that had autoplayed after she watched YouTube replays of late-night television. “I reflected on my conversation with my mom a lot after that happened and came up with one possible explanation,” Colin said.


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Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America by Greg Farrell

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Airbus A320, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, bank run, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, bonus culture, call centre, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, compensation consultant, corporate governance, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, financial engineering, financial innovation, fixed income, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, high net worth, junk bonds, Ken Thompson, Long Term Capital Management, mass affluent, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Michael Milken, Nelson Mandela, plutocrats, Ronald Reagan, six sigma, sovereign wealth fund, technology bubble, too big to fail, US Airways Flight 1549, yield curve

Throughout his career, that trust had been well-placed. The story of O’Neal’s rise to the pinnacle of Wall Street was by now legendary. The fifty-seven-year-old African-American, born in Roanoke, Alabama, and raised in the dirt-poor town of Wedowee, Alabama, the grandson of a man born into slavery in the 1860s, had shattered every glass ceiling and stormed through, over, or around every obstacle placed in his way to become chief executive of Merrill Lynch at the end of 2002. Over the next five years, he transformed the business. The backbone of Merrill Lynch had always been its nationwide network of financial advisors—the 16,000 men and women spread across the U.S. who managed not only the investments of the wealthiest people in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large cities, but the slender portfolios of the hardworking citizens in second-tier towns like Cincinnati, Wichita, Lansing, Spokane.


Fodor's Venice and Northern Italy by Fodor's

car-free, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Murano, Venice glass, trade route, urban planning, young professional

Restaurants Hotels ¢ under €20 under €75 $ €20–€30 €75–€125 $$ €30–€45 €125–€200 $$$ €45–€65 €200–€300 $$$$ over €65 over €300 Getting Here and Around Getting Around by Train Milan’s massive Central Station (Milano Centrale), 3 km (2 mi) northwest of the Duomo, is one of Italy’s major passenger-train hubs, with frequent direct service within the region to Como, Bergamo, Brescia, Sirmione, Pavia, Cremona, and Mantua. Soaring domed glass ceilings and plenty of signage have significantly improved the renovated station’s navigability, but its sheer size requires considerable walking and patience, so allow for some extra time here. For general information on trains and schedules, as well as online ticket purchase, visit the Web site of the Italian national railway, FS (www.trenitalia.com).


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Berlin by Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, biodiversity loss, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, indoor plumbing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Skype, starchitect, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal

Strandgut Berlin (Map; 7008 5566; www.strandgut-berlin.com, in German; Mühlenstrasse 61-63, Fried-richshain; from 10am; Ostbahnhof) The most chic of the East Side Gallery sandpits, where the beer is cold, the cocktails strong, the crowd grown-up and the DJs tops (André Galluzzi celebrated his birthday party here in 2008). * * * WÜRGEENGEL Map Bar 615 5560; www.wuergeengel.de, in German; Dresdener Strasse 122; from 7pm; Kottbusser Tor For a swanky night out, point the compass to this dimly lit cocktail cave. The interior is pure ’50s with a striking glass ceiling, chandeliers and shiny black tables. The name pays homage to the surreal 1962 Luis Buñuel movie, Exterminating Angel. A stop here is nicely combined with dinner at the adjacent Gorgonzola Club or a movie at the Babylon. GOLGATHA Map Beer Garden 785 2453; www.golgatha-berlin.de, in German; Dudenstrasse 48-64; 10am-6am Apr-Sep; Yorckstrasse A pilgrimage to this beer garden in the Viktoriapark is a beloved summer ritual.


Frommer's San Diego 2011 by Mark Hiss

airport security, California gold rush, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, El Camino Real, gentrification, glass ceiling, machine readable, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, Skype, South of Market, San Francisco, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

The mural on the F Street side of the building depicts a group of deceased rock stars (Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and Elvis) lounging at sidewalk tables. Original stained-glass windows from the old Golden Lion Tavern (1907–32) front Fourth Avenue. Inside, the colorful stained-glass ceiling was taken from an Elks Club in Stockton, California, and much of the floor is original. CITY STROLLS The Embarcadero Labor Temple Building Winding Down Walk to bohemian Café Lulu, 419 F St. (& 619/238-0114), near Fourth Avenue, for coffee and sweets; or head back into Horton Plaza, where you can choose from many kinds of cuisine, from Chinese to Indian, along with good old American fast food.


Peggy Seeger by Jean R. Freedman

anti-communist, anti-work, antiwork, cotton gin, feminist movement, financial independence, glass ceiling, job satisfaction, Multics, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, Skype, We are the 99%, Works Progress Administration, young professional

It might've come from that, but it's meaningless.” My point was that the whole PC thing by arguing those tiny little points, it's a smokescreen for the Right, it's a smokescreen for everyone else to poke fun at us and to go, “See? See how stupid they are?”…It's not the point. The point is domestic violence, the point is women not having a glass ceiling in society; the point is all the other stuff, not this. She said, “Perhaps we can find another word,” at which point Kitty roars at the top of her voice, “Oh, for God's sake, Mum, you can't say ‘that's got real clit,’ can you?”…It only ever got resolved about nine months later, and it didn't really get resolved….


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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Ada Lovelace, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, assortative mating, barriers to entry, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Bletchley Park, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, business intelligence, central bank independence, circulation of elites, Clayton Christensen, cognitive bias, Corn Laws, coronavirus, corporate governance, correlation coefficient, COVID-19, creative destruction, critical race theory, David Brooks, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich, Etonian, European colonialism, fake news, feminist movement, George Floyd, George Gilder, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, helicopter parent, Home mortgage interest deduction, income inequality, intangible asset, invention of gunpowder, invention of the printing press, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Jim Simons, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, land tenure, London Interbank Offered Rate, Long Term Capital Management, Louis Pasteur, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, meritocracy, meta-analysis, microaggression, mortgage tax deduction, Myron Scholes, offshore financial centre, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, post-industrial society, post-oil, pre–internet, public intellectual, publish or perish, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, sexual politics, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, spinning jenny, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, supply-chain management, surveillance capitalism, tech bro, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, three-martini lunch, Tim Cook: Apple, transfer pricing, Tyler Cowen, unit 8200, upwardly mobile, Vilfredo Pareto, W. E. B. Du Bois, wealth creators, women in the workforce

In Britain’s EU referendum, 72 per cent of people with no educational qualifications voted to leave, compared with only 35 per cent of those with a university degree.2 In America, Donald Trump won whites without college degrees by a 36 per cent margin, while Hillary Clinton won whites with college degrees by a 17 per cent margin. The first female presidential candidate for a major party lost white women without a degree by twenty-seven points. It turns out that the average waitress doesn’t care that much about ‘breaking the glass ceiling’ if it means getting more women on to the boards of Fortune 500 companies. One reason why the Leave vote proved such a surprise for pollsters in Britain was that it was driven by a surge in turn-out among less educated people who had almost lost the habit of voting. Areas with large numbers of people with no educational qualifications witnessed a larger increase in turnout (8.4 points) than areas with large numbers of middle-class graduates (6.6 points).


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There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill

2021 United States Capitol attack, active measures, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, algorithmic bias, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, business climate, call centre, collective bargaining, company town, coronavirus, COVID-19, crony capitalism, cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, deindustrialization, desegregation, digital divide, disinformation, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial independence, first-past-the-post, food desert, gender pay gap, gentrification, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, Great Leap Forward, housing crisis, illegal immigration, imposter syndrome, income inequality, indoor plumbing, industrial cluster, industrial research laboratory, informal economy, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, lockdown, low skilled workers, Lyft, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, meme stock, Mikhail Gorbachev, new economy, oil shock, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Own Your Own Home, Paris climate accords, pension reform, QAnon, ransomware, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, statistical model, Steve Bannon, The Chicago School, TikTok, transatlantic slave trade, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, University of East Anglia, urban decay, urban planning, Washington Consensus, WikiLeaks, Winter of Discontent, women in the workforce, working poor, Yom Kippur War, young professional

Back in my personal dystopia of the North East of England in the 1980s, the main obstacles to opportunity were spatial and structural. They were the product of geographically concentrated postindustrial decline, deep-rooted multigenerational poverty, and regional biases and social discrimination based on class and accent. When I moved to the United States, I encountered the classic glass-ceiling issues of sexism and gender and wage discrimination. On the other hand, I discovered that being white in America canceled out some of the impediments to educational and employment opportunity posed by being low-income working class in the North East of England. Race is a deeply embedded, all-pervasive structural barrier to opportunity in the United States.


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Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt

British Empire, Charles Babbage, Copley Medal, Dava Sobel, digital map, Fellow of the Royal Society, glass ceiling, Google Earth, Isaac Newton, John Harrison: Longitude, land reform, late capitalism, lone genius, Mikhail Gorbachev, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, Republic of Letters, side project, South Sea Bubble, Suez canal 1869, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions

Today, a blue plaque marks the house that belonged to ‘the founder of the Ordnance Survey’, but its interior has changed beyond almost all recognition. Roy had used the fourth floor as an observatory and this entire storey has been demolished and replaced with an elaborate fire-escape. Offices now orbit a central staircase that spirals up to a radiant stained-glass ceiling and the ground floor is currently leased out to the clothing chain French Connection: an amusing serendipity, for, as we shall see, one of Roy’s greatest contributions to the earth sciences was a measurement conducted between the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and the Paris Observatory, a different sort of ‘French Connection’.


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Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani

"World Economic Forum" Davos, addicted to oil, affirmative action, Airbus A320, BRICs, British Empire, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, carbon credits, carbon tax, clean water, colonial rule, corporate governance, cuban missile crisis, deindustrialization, demographic dividend, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, digital map, distributed generation, electricity market, farmers can use mobile phones to check market prices, flag carrier, full employment, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, global supply chain, Hernando de Soto, income inequality, informal economy, information asymmetry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), joint-stock company, knowledge economy, land reform, light touch regulation, LNG terminal, load shedding, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, market fragmentation, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, Network effects, new economy, New Urbanism, open economy, Parag Khanna, pension reform, Potemkin village, price mechanism, public intellectual, race to the bottom, rent control, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, Silicon Valley, smart grid, special economic zone, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, Thomas Malthus, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, unemployed young men, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, women in the workforce, working poor, working-age population

People are arriving with a willingness to work at anything, and to learn in any way they can. “These people are hungry for opportunity,” Jaideep Sahni tells me. “They will live in any circumstances, and move anywhere, for a chance at a job.” And yet, instead of creating opportunity, our regulations have placed a glass ceiling on both the economic potential of these workers and India’s overall rise. It has limited our mobility, growth and the individual hope of these workers—it prevents, in essence, the promises of the Horatio Alger story. INSTITUTIONS OF SAND Our Universities OUR UNIVERSITIES,” Deepak Nayyar, former vice chancellor of Delhi University (DU), says to me, “are no longer ivory towers.


Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters, Kevin Raub

airport security, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, colonial rule, Columbian Exchange, Downton Abbey, El Camino Real, Francisco Pizarro, friendly fire, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute couture, land reform, low cost airline, off-the-grid, race to the bottom, sustainable-tourism, urban sprawl

The rooms at the back are quieter, while those at the front have more natural light. Armenia HotelHOTEL ( GOOGLE MAP ; %746-0099; www.armeniahotelsa.com; Av Bolívar No 8N-67; s/d/tr COP$199,000/254,000/310,000; aiW) The best hotel in town, the Armenia has nine floors built around a vaulted interior atrium with a glass ceiling. The rooms are spacious, decked out with stylish guadua (bamboo) furniture, and many offer great views of the Cordillera Central or the city. There is a heated outdoor pool and a full-service restaurant downstairs. 5Eating There are plenty of cheap eats in the center during the day and also around the Universidad de Quindío, where numerous bars and small eateries pursue the student market.


Sweden by Becky Ohlsen

accounting loophole / creative accounting, car-free, centre right, clean water, financial independence, glass ceiling, haute couture, Kickstarter, low cost airline, mass immigration, New Urbanism, period drama, place-making, post-work, retail therapy, starchitect, the built environment, white picket fence

The top-floor rooms have air-con, several rooms offer river views and the chic split-level courtyard is perfect for sophisticated chilling. Hotel Royal (700 11 70; www.hotelroyal.nu; Drottninggatan 67; s/d from Skr1295/1495; ) Göte-borg’s oldest hotel (1852) has aged enviably. The grand entrance has been retained, complete with painted glass ceiling and sweeping staircase, and the elegant, airy rooms make necessary 21st-century concessions like flatscreen TVs and renovated bathrooms. There’s also homemade cake for guests. Check the website for special offers. Hotel Eggers (333 44 40; www.hoteleggers.se; Drottningtorget; s/d from Skr1495/1835; ) Elegant Eggers would make a great set for a period drama.


Frommer's San Francisco 2012 by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert, Kristin Luna

airport security, Albert Einstein, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Blue Bottle Coffee, California gold rush, car-free, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, El Camino Real, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, off-the-grid, place-making, Port of Oakland, post-work, San Francisco homelessness, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Torches of Freedom, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Rebuilt after the 1906 quake, its most spectacular attributes remain the regal lobby and the Garden Court, a San Francisco landmark restaurant that was restored to its original 1909 grandeur. A double row of massive Italian-marble Ionic columns flank the court, and 10 huge chandeliers dangle above. The real heart-stopper, however, is the 80,000-pane stained-glass ceiling. (Good special effects made Michael Douglas look like he fell through it in the movie The Game.) Regrettably, the rooms aren’t quite as grand. But they’re vastly improved and emulate yesteryear’s refinement with mahogany beds, warm gold paint and upholstery, and tasteful artwork. The Garden Court is famous for its high tea, and an elaborate brunch on special holidays (scaled-down on regular weekends). 2 New Montgomery St.


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Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) by Adam Fisher

adjacent possible, Airbnb, Albert Einstein, AltaVista, An Inconvenient Truth, Andy Rubin, AOL-Time Warner, Apple II, Apple Newton, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Bill Atkinson, Bob Noyce, Brownian motion, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, Byte Shop, circular economy, cognitive dissonance, Colossal Cave Adventure, Computer Lib, disintermediation, Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, driverless car, dual-use technology, Dynabook, Elon Musk, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake it until you make it, fake news, frictionless, General Magic , glass ceiling, Hacker Conference 1984, Hacker Ethic, Henry Singleton, Howard Rheingold, HyperCard, hypertext link, index card, informal economy, information retrieval, Ivan Sutherland, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Rulifson, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Jony Ive, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, Larry Ellison, life extension, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, Mondo 2000, Mother of all demos, move fast and break things, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, new economy, nuclear winter, off-the-grid, PageRank, Paul Buchheit, paypal mafia, peer-to-peer, Peter Thiel, pets.com, pez dispenser, popular electronics, quantum entanglement, random walk, reality distortion field, risk tolerance, Robert Metcalfe, rolodex, Salesforce, self-driving car, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skeuomorphism, skunkworks, Skype, Snow Crash, social graph, social web, South of Market, San Francisco, Startup school, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Susan Wojcicki, synthetic biology, Ted Nelson, telerobotics, The future is already here, The Hackers Conference, the long tail, the new new thing, Tim Cook: Apple, Tony Fadell, tulip mania, V2 rocket, We are as Gods, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, Y Combinator

Bartholomew didn’t manage to sell any lobsters, but he saw the potential of AdWords arbitrage. The strategic buying and selling of words (and their associated traffic)—was soon earning Bartholomew tens of thousands of dollars a day. Carol Bartz is foul-mouthed, Republican, and the first woman to blast through Silicon Valley’s glass ceiling. Though she retired in 2001, she is still revered as one of the Valley’s most accomplished leaders—of either sex—having served as CEO at both Autodesk and Yahoo. John Battelle was hired right out of Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism to be Wired’s first managing editor. Soon after, he founded his own, more business-focused magazine, the Industry Standard.


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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan, Daniel Freedman

airport security, Ayatollah Khomeini, call centre, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, independent contractor, PalmPilot, power law, Ronald Reagan, Timothy McVeigh

And he had the final say. [1 word redacted] stayed in Washington. That was the end of the FBI’s involvement in Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation. After [1 word redacted] left, Boris had to keep introducing harsher and harsher methods, because Abu Zubaydah and other terrorists were trained to resist them. In a democracy such as ours, there is a glass ceiling on harsh techniques that the interrogator cannot breach, so a detainee can eventually call the interrogator’s bluff. And that’s what Abu Zubaydah did. This is why the EIT proponents later had to order Abu Zubaydah to be waterboarded again, and again, and again—at least eighty-three times, reportedly.


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This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, business cycle, business process, call centre, Clayton Christensen, commoditize, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, crowdsourcing, data science, different worldview, Eyjafjallajökull, fail fast, glass ceiling, Internet of things, iterative process, Kanban, Lean Startup, M-Pesa, minimum viable product, mobile money, off-the-grid, pattern recognition, RFID, scientific management, side project, Silicon Valley, software as a service, stealth mode startup, sustainable-tourism, systems thinking, tacit knowledge, the built environment, the scientific method, urban planning, work culture

A flexible and dynamic space We wanted the WECO space to be flexible, a dynamic and inspiring environment that could allow people to reinvent the configuration depending on the hosted activity. Its features were initially selected according to the physical constraints of the space, building on event organization knowledge from SuccessfulDesign.org and CBi China Bridge facilitation and co-creation methodologies. A glass ceiling extends all the way from the kitchen to the guest area, where there are sofas and a public library. This is called 高架桥 (gao jia qiao), or the “expressway.” It connects the entrance with CBi’s studio and the observation room. Here is where most of the activities happen. In the middle of the space is a projector screen that, when fully drawn down, transforms the space into a lecture room.


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Moon Oregon Trail Road Trip: Historic Sites, Small Towns, and Scenic Landscapes Along the Legendary Westward Route by Katrina Emery, Moon Travel Guides

Airbnb, bike sharing, California gold rush, car-free, crowdsourcing, desegregation, Donner party, glass ceiling, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mason jar, mass immigration, pez dispenser, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, trade route, transcontinental railway, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, Works Progress Administration

The shop also has a selection of gorgeous jewelry studded with turquoise, red coral, and silver, some featuring beaded patterns. Accommodations Under $150 Built in 1911, S The Historic Plains Hotel (1600 Central Ave., 307/638-3311, www.theplainshotel.com [URL inactive], $100-160) has turn-of-the-20th-century charm that has been lovingly restored. Start your visit in the grand lobby, featuring a beautiful stained-glass ceiling and tiled floors. Head up in the tiny elevator (small in size to discourage cowboys from bringing up their horses) and exit into hallways decked with tasteful Western decor. The 131 rooms and suites have antique fixtures and soft beds. The on-site restaurant and lounge serves breakfast (included), lunch, dinner, and cocktails in wooden booths with leather accents.


The Rough Guide to Sweden (Travel Guide eBook) by Rough Guides

carbon footprint, centre right, congestion charging, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, large denomination, Peace of Westphalia, place-making, sensible shoes, Suez crisis 1956, trade route, urban planning, WikiLeaks

Tents 180kr, cabins 500kr EATING AND DRINKING There are plenty of good places to eat in Varberg, mostly along Kungsgatan, which runs north of the main square. It’s a good idea to book a table since the town is a popular holiday spot in the summer. Café Mignon Drottninggatan 23, cafemignon.se. This delightful café is located in Varberg’s former pharmacy and boasts an ornately decorated glass ceiling. A good choice of sandwiches and cakes, including home-baked scones. Also serves a daily breakfast (from 85kr). Mon–Fri 7am–8pm, Sat 7am–6pm, Sun 9am–6pm. Grappa Brunnsparken 0340 179 20, grapparestaurang.se. This intimate, candlelit restaurant is the place to come for Mediterranean food in Varberg: the entrecôte with ragout, broccoli and chilli mayonnaise (335kr) and the cornfed chicken with mushrooms in a cream sauce (290kr) are both excellent.


Frommer's Mexico 2008 by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow, Emily Hughey Quinn

airport security, AltaVista, Bartolomé de las Casas, centre right, colonial rule, Day of the Dead, East Village, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, low cost airline, Maui Hawaii, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Skype, sustainable-tourism, the market place, urban planning

In room: A/C, TV, Wi-Fi, minibar, coffeemaker, hair dryer, iron, safe. M O D E R AT E Best Western Hotel Majestic This classic hotel’s prime location, facing the zócalo, is reason enough to stay here. The Majestic is somewhat of a Mexico City institution that visitors should experience at least once. The comfortable lobby has a glass ceiling that is also the floor of a sitting area surrounded by rooms. Rooms that don’t look onto the zócalo overlook Avenida Madero or the hotel’s inner court. The lobby and courtyard are decorated with stone arches, beautiful tiles, and stone fountains. Furnishings in the rooms are rather dated, and plans to upgrade them seem to continually stall.

This high-quality, nine-floor resort, adjacent to one of the liveliest beaches in Old Acapulco, offers excellent value. Stay here if you seek the authentic feel of a Mexican holiday, with all its boisterous, family-friendly charms. The hotel is built into a cliff on the Caleta peninsula, overlooking the beach. Rooms surround a plant-filled courtyard, topped by a glass ceiling. All have large terraces with ocean views, although some connect to the neighboring terrace. The simply decorated rooms are very clean and comfortable, with a large closet and desk. Each room has two queen beds with firm mattresses, and cable TV. ACAPULCO 387 A succession of terraces holds tropical gardens, restaurants, and pools.


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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

game design, glass ceiling, gravity well, Kuiper Belt, planetary scale, random walk, statistical model, time dilation, VTOL

Occasionally there were recesses, stash-holes for equipment or small operations shacks, or switching points where two elevators could squeeze past one another before continuing their journeys. Servitors were working the diamond, extruding it in atomic-thickness filaments from spinnerettes. The filaments zipped neatly into place under the action of protein-sized molecular machines. Looking through the glass ceiling, the faintly translucent shaft seemed to reach towards infinity. 'Why didn't you tell me you'd found this?' Sylveste asked. 'You must have been here for months at the very least.' 'Let's just say your input wasn't critical,' Girardieau said, and then added, 'until now, that is.' At the shaft's bottom, they exited into another corridor, silver-clad, cleaner and cooler than the one they had walked through at ground level.


Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi

Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, British Empire, Brixton riot, call centre, Charles Babbage, classic study, discovery of the americas, en.wikipedia.org, financial intermediation, gentrification, ghettoisation, gig economy, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, immigration reform, income inequality, Londongrad, Mahatma Gandhi, manufacturing employment, mass immigration, multicultural london english, New Urbanism, offshore financial centre, plutocrats, post-war consensus, public intellectual, Shamima Begum, transatlantic slave trade, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl, W. E. B. Du Bois, white flight

While some isolated attacks may have taken place in the East End,54 the only place in Britain which witnessed an anti-Jewish riot before 1914 was South Wales in August 1911, an area that counted tiny numbers of Jews who became scapegoats during a coal-mining strike.55 Against the background of the nationalism and xenophobia of the First World War, antisemitic riots broke out in the ghettoes of Leylands in Leeds and the East End in June and September 1917 respectively because of the unfounded perception that Jews avoided military service.56 Everyday antisemitism as experienced by London Jews continued during the interwar years. On the one hand this resulted from the fact that the second generation started breaking out of the constraints and safety of the East End, especially when they tried to move into the professions, when the idea that they faced a glass ceiling circulated amongst them, meaning that many opted for an easier path such as small-scale self-employment. These developments took place against the background of the fact that the majority of Londoners held antisemitic views, even during the Second World War,57 when some members of the white majority expressed the type of virulent ideas circulating in Nazi Germany.58 The 1930s also witnessed a growth in violent attacks on East End Jews as a result of the activism of the British Union of Fascists, although the local community fought back, especially during the Battle of Cable Street.59 Antisemitism remained strong in the early post-war decades.


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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class by Charles Murray

23andMe, affirmative action, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asperger Syndrome, assortative mating, autism spectrum disorder, basic income, behavioural economics, bioinformatics, Cass Sunstein, correlation coefficient, CRISPR, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark triade / dark tetrad, domesticated silver fox, double helix, Drosophila, emotional labour, epigenetics, equal pay for equal work, European colonialism, feminist movement, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, Gunnar Myrdal, income inequality, Kenneth Arrow, labor-force participation, longitudinal study, meritocracy, meta-analysis, nudge theory, out of africa, p-value, phenotype, public intellectual, publication bias, quantitative hedge fund, randomized controlled trial, Recombinant DNA, replication crisis, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, school vouchers, Scientific racism, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Silicon Valley, Skinner box, social intelligence, Social Justice Warrior, statistical model, Steven Pinker, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, twin studies, universal basic income, working-age population

The fitted mean for Asians is 57 percent higher than the fitted mean for whites.[11] Let me be clear: I am not using these numbers to say that women, blacks, and Latinos do not still face problems because of sexism and racism. These numbers say nothing about individuals being passed over for promotions because of their sex or ethnicity, about glass ceilings, or about discriminatory or harassing interactions in the workplace. But there can be many people who legitimately think they haven’t gotten fair treatment without justifying the rhetoric that the orthodoxy uses about white male privilege. If we’re comparing men and women with similar IQs or members of different ethnicities with similar IQs, there’s only one American group that appears to be privileged for mysterious reasons.


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The Enlightened Capitalists by James O'Toole

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, Abraham Maslow, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, benefit corporation, Bernie Madoff, Bletchley Park, book value, British Empire, business cycle, business logic, business process, California gold rush, carbon footprint, City Beautiful movement, collective bargaining, company town, compensation consultant, Cornelius Vanderbilt, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, desegregation, do well by doing good, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, end world poverty, equal pay for equal work, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, garden city movement, germ theory of disease, glass ceiling, God and Mammon, greed is good, high-speed rail, hiring and firing, income inequality, indoor plumbing, inventory management, invisible hand, James Hargreaves, job satisfaction, joint-stock company, Kickstarter, knowledge worker, Lao Tzu, Larry Ellison, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Lyft, Marc Benioff, means of production, Menlo Park, North Sea oil, passive investing, Ponzi scheme, profit maximization, profit motive, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, scientific management, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Socratic dialogue, sovereign wealth fund, spinning jenny, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, stock buybacks, stocks for the long run, stocks for the long term, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tim Cook: Apple, traveling salesman, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, Vanguard fund, white flight, women in the workforce, young professional

That breakthrough allowed PTFE to be made into the miracle material widely known as Gore-Tex, for which teams of Gore associates then found applications ranging from breathable fabrics used in shoes and jackets to synthetic blood vessels used in surgery to guitar strings and dental floss. The company became known as both an incubator of innovative products and processes and a great place to work, ranked among Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For every year since the list first appeared in 1998. BREAK IN THE GLASS CEILING Gore was an especially good place for women associates, perhaps due to Vieve Gore’s influence. The company made it a practice to recruit women, and because of its egalitarian nature, many worked their way into leadership positions. Since academic credentials and previous leadership experience were irrelevant at Gore, women—underrepresented as a group in university science and technology programs, and often passed over for leadership positions in most technology companies—had a better shot at achieving prominence.


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Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy

active measures, Airbnb, Airbus A320, Amazon Mechanical Turk, AOL-Time Warner, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, augmented reality, Ben Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Blitzscaling, blockchain, Burning Man, business intelligence, Cambridge Analytica, cloud computing, company town, computer vision, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, deep learning, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Dunbar number, East Village, Edward Snowden, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Firefox, Frank Gehry, Geoffrey Hinton, glass ceiling, GPS: selective availability, growth hacking, imposter syndrome, indoor plumbing, information security, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff, Jony Ive, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, lock screen, Lyft, machine translation, Mahatma Gandhi, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, MITM: man-in-the-middle, move fast and break things, natural language processing, Network effects, Oculus Rift, operational security, PageRank, Paul Buchheit, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, pets.com, post-work, Ray Kurzweil, recommendation engine, Robert Mercer, Robert Metcalfe, rolodex, Russian election interference, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, self-driving car, sexual politics, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skeuomorphism, slashdot, Snapchat, social contagion, social graph, social software, South of Market, San Francisco, Startup school, Steve Ballmer, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Steven Pinker, surveillance capitalism, tech billionaire, techlash, Tim Cook: Apple, Tragedy of the Commons, web application, WeWork, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Y Combinator, Y2K, you are the product

See Nick Bilton, “‘I Hope It Cracks Who She Is Wide Open’: In Silicon Valley, Many Have Long Known Sheryl Sandberg Is Not a Saint,” Vanity Fair, November 16, 2018. The aforementioned New York Times article, “Delay, Deny and Deflect,” which portrays Sandberg as culpable in the post-election saga, was a turning point in the press’s treatment of the COO. hostile prepublication article: Jodi Kantor, “A Titan’s How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling,” New York Times, February 21, 2015. “Sandberg has co-opted the vocabulary”: Maureen Dowd, “Pompom Girl for Feminism,” New York Times, February 23, 2013. the real newspaper: Eric Lubbers, “There Is No Such Thing as the Denver Guardian, Despite That Facebook Post You Saw,” Denver Post, November 5, 2016.


England by David Else

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, colonial rule, Columbine, company town, congestion charging, country house hotel, Crossrail, David Attenborough, David Brooks, Edward Jenner, Etonian, food miles, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, Nelson Mandela, new economy, New Urbanism, out of africa, period drama, place-making, retail therapy, sceptred isle, Skype, Sloane Ranger, South of Market, San Francisco, Stephen Hawking, the market place, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, unbiased observer, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Winter of Discontent

Expect tabouleh, felafel, brochettes, merguez (spicy lamb sausage) and wonderful grills from the indoor charcoal barbecue. De Luca ( 01223-356666; www.delucacucina.co.uk; 83 Regent St; mains £8-19.50; 11am-late) Contemporary style and classic Italian food collide in this light-filled restaurant in the centre of town. The open kitchen, glass ceiling and exposed brickwork make it a bright and lively place to dine and with a great wine list and plenty of cocktails it’s as popular for long lunches as it is for boozy nights out. Rainbow Vegetarian Bistro ( 01223-321551; www.rainbowcafe.co.uk; 9a King’s Pde; mains £8.50-9.50; 10am-10pm Tue-Sat) First-rate vegetarian food and a pious glow emanate from this snug subterranean gem, accessed down a narrow passageway off King’s Pde.

Another impressive Buxton construction, the graceful curved terrace of the Crescent, is reminiscent of the Royal Crescent in Bath and is being transformed into a luxury hotel, due for completion in 2010. Just east of here is Cavendish Arcade, formerly a thermal bathhouse (you can still see the chair used for lowering the infirm into the restorative waters) with several craft and book shops and a striking coloured-glass ceiling. Opposite the Crescent, the Pump Room, which dispensed Buxton’s spring water for nearly a century, now hosts temporary art exhibitions. Just outside is St Ann’s Well, a fountain from which Buxton’s famous thermal waters still flow – and where a regular procession of tourists queue to fill plastic bottles and slake their thirst with the liquid’s ‘curative’ power.


Frommer's London 2009 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

airport security, Ascot racecourse, British Empire, double helix, East Village, Easter island, Edmond Halley, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, Maui Hawaii, Murano, Venice glass, New Urbanism, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Sloane Ranger, Stephen Hawking, sustainable-tourism, urban renewal, young professional

Jacket and tie required for men after 6pm. High tea £31 ($62); £39 ($78) including champagne. AE, DC, MC, V. Daily 3–5:30pm. Tube: Bond St. The Palm Court This is one of the great London favorites for tea. Restored to its former charm, the lounge has an atmosphere straight from 1927, with a domed yellow-and-white glass ceiling, torchères, and palms in Compton stoneware jardinières. A delightful afternoon repast that includes a long list of teas is served daily against the background of live harp music. In the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, W1. & 020/7499-6321. Reservations recommended. Afternoon tea £25 ($50); with a glass of Park Lane champagne £34 ($68).AE, DC, MC,V.


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Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More by Jason Cochran

Bonfire of the Vanities, Boris Johnson, British Empire, congestion charging, context collapse, David Attenborough, Easter island, electricity market, Etonian, Frank Gehry, glass ceiling, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, Isaac Newton, John Snow's cholera map, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Multics, Nelson Mandela, Skype, Stephen Fry, urban planning

It’s now a stylish luxury hotel, but I suggest you go inside briefly, because much of the old judicial fittings were left intact. You can have a cocktail in one of the old jail cells— now converted into private booths, with Zen stones filling the old toilets— or even peek into Silk, a restaurant slotted into the authoritative Number One court, which still has its witness stand, bench, wood paneling, and vaulted glass ceiling. Beyond the Courthouse Hotel on the left, you’ll see a Tudor-style building of black beams and white plaster. This is Liberty (p. 267), famous for its haute fabrics. It’s also famous for its building—it was made in 1924 using wood recycled from junked ships. Liberty’s wares are alternately mocked and celebrated, and rarely cheap, but they’re usually interesting at the least.


The Rough Guide to Norway by Phil Lee

banking crisis, bike sharing, car-free, centre right, company town, Easter island, glass ceiling, Nelson Mandela, North Sea oil, out of africa, place-making, sensible shoes, sustainable-tourism, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, walkable city, white picket fence

Luckily it was picked up and expertly restored in the 1990s. The hotel’s main facade is an imposing affair, whose twin towers are topped by finials in a permutation of Viking style. Inside, pride of place goes to the galleried hall with its huge stained-glass ceiling, open fireplace and carved woodwork. The 42 very comfortable guest rooms, which are in the hotel’s two wings, have been returned to an approximation of their original appearance too, and the pick have balconies overlooking the hotel gardens, which stretch down to the lake.


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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich

agricultural Revolution, Bartolomé de las Casas, behavioural economics, British Empire, charter city, cognitive dissonance, Columbian Exchange, correlation does not imply causation, cotton gin, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, delayed gratification, discovery of the americas, Edward Glaeser, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, epigenetics, European colonialism, experimental economics, financial innovation, Flynn Effect, fundamental attribution error, glass ceiling, income inequality, invention of agriculture, Isaac Newton, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, Johannes Kepler, John Snow's cholera map, joint-stock company, knowledge economy, land reform, longitudinal study, Menlo Park, mental accounting, meta-analysis, New Urbanism, pattern recognition, Pearl River Delta, profit maximization, randomized controlled trial, Republic of Letters, rolodex, social contagion, social web, sparse data, spinning jenny, Spread Networks laid a new fibre optics cable between New York and Chicago, Stanford marshmallow experiment, tacit knowledge, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, trade route, Tyler Cowen, ultimatum game, wikimedia commons, working-age population, World Values Survey, zero-sum game

SCALING UP Ilahita highlights how hard it is to sustain broad cooperation and scale up societies. Even when facing mortal threats, most Sepik communities couldn’t get more than about 80 men to live, work, and fight together. Instead, people were killed, captured, or driven off their lands. Moreover, while the 300 rule represented a glass ceiling on cooperation, even this degree of cooperation wasn’t easy, automatic, or effortless. Elsewhere in the Sepik, where warfare and raiding were less intense, other Arapesh populations preferred to live in smaller hamlets, with fewer than 90 people. This case gives us a glimpse of the two key processes that drive up the scale and intensity of cooperation: (1) intergroup competition and (2) the “fit” between different social norms and institutions.


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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 23andMe, 4chan, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alexander Shulgin, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, barriers to entry, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Cambridge Analytica, Charles Lindbergh, Charlie Hebdo massacre, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, cloud computing, commoditize, content marketing, corporate governance, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, data science, death of newspapers, digital twin, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, East Village, Edward Snowden, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Filter Bubble, future of journalism, glass ceiling, Google Glasses, haute couture, hive mind, income inequality, information asymmetry, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Schumpeter, Khyber Pass, late capitalism, Laura Poitras, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, move fast and break things, Nate Silver, new economy, obamacare, Occupy movement, Paris climate accords, performance metric, Peter Thiel, phenotype, pre–internet, race to the bottom, recommendation engine, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, sentiment analysis, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, Snapchat, social contagion, social intelligence, social web, SoftBank, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, tech billionaire, technoutopianism, telemarketer, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, vertical integration, WeWork, WikiLeaks, work culture , Yochai Benkler, you are the product

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. https://shorensteincenter.org/what-will-become-of-newspapers. Childress, Diana. Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 2008. Chozick, Amy. Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling. New York: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Clinton, Hillary Rodham. What Happened. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Daley, Chris K. Becoming Breitbart: The Impact of a New Media Revolutionary. Chris Daley Publishing, 2012. Downie, Leonard, and Robert G. Kaiser. The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril.


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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits

8-hour work day, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, affirmative action, algorithmic management, Amazon Robotics, Anton Chekhov, asset-backed security, assortative mating, basic income, Bernie Sanders, big-box store, business cycle, capital asset pricing model, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carl Icahn, carried interest, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, compensation consultant, computer age, corporate governance, corporate raider, crony capitalism, David Brooks, deskilling, Detroit bankruptcy, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, Edward Glaeser, Emanuel Derman, equity premium, European colonialism, everywhere but in the productivity statistics, fear of failure, financial engineering, financial innovation, financial intermediation, fixed income, Ford paid five dollars a day, Frederick Winslow Taylor, fulfillment center, full employment, future of work, gender pay gap, gentrification, George Akerlof, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Greenspan put, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, high net worth, hiring and firing, income inequality, industrial robot, interchangeable parts, invention of agriculture, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, job automation, job satisfaction, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, junk bonds, Kevin Roose, Kiva Systems, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, Kodak vs Instagram, labor-force participation, Larry Ellison, longitudinal study, low interest rates, low skilled workers, machine readable, manufacturing employment, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, medical residency, meritocracy, minimum wage unemployment, Myron Scholes, Nate Silver, New Economic Geography, new economy, offshore financial centre, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Paul Samuelson, payday loans, plutocrats, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, precariat, purchasing power parity, rent-seeking, Richard Florida, Robert Gordon, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, Rutger Bregman, savings glut, school choice, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, six sigma, Skype, stakhanovite, stem cell, Stephen Fry, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, supply-chain management, telemarketer, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thomas Davenport, Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, total factor productivity, transaction costs, traveling salesman, universal basic income, unpaid internship, Vanguard fund, War on Poverty, warehouse robotics, Winter of Discontent, women in the workforce, work culture , working poor, Yochai Benkler, young professional, zero-sum game

fight Mike Tyson: Will Meyerhofer, “Not Worth It,” The People’s Therapist, April 13, 2011, accessed November 18, 2018, https://thepeoplestherapist.com/2011/04/13/not-worth-it/#more-3292 (Meyerhofer worked at the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell). “sick and insane”: Ho, Liquidated, 115. “not a life”: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein et al., “Glass Ceilings and Open Doors: Women’s Advancement in the Legal Profession,” Fordham Law Review 46 (1995): 385. “no way to have a child”: Rhode, Balanced Lives, 14. to the Holocaust: See Ho, Liquidated. “less smart”: The quotations come from Ho, Liquidated, 44, 56. Chapter Seven: A Comprehensive Divide the forty-second and forty-third presidents of the United States: “Timeline Guide to the U.S.


The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes

Anton Chekhov, British Empire, Charles Babbage, glass ceiling, global village, Honoré de Balzac, Internet Archive, Murano, Venice glass, new economy, New Journalism, Open Library, Republic of Letters, Suez canal 1869, wikimedia commons

He set off there after finishing his bath. The gigantic exhibition hall, an oval-shaped complex of six concentric galleries, the outer almost two kilometres in length, was filled with machines of every kind and dimension, their noise drowning out the hubbub of the crowd, steam from their engines billowing to the glass ceiling. After a few hours of walking through the galleries, Turgenev was worn out. ‘My feet could not go any farther,’ he reported to Pauline, ‘I was utterly bewildered by this chaos [tohu-bohu] of machines, furniture, diamonds, emeralds as big as melons, drapery of every colour, crystals, weapons, palaces, kiosks, pottery, porcelain, horses, dogs, paintings, statues, Chinese men and women, signs, waterclosets (I entered them four times) … etc. etc.’65 Turgenev was only really interested in the paintings, which he returned to inspect the next day.


Spain by Lonely Planet Publications, Damien Simonis

Atahualpa, business process, call centre, centre right, Colonization of Mars, discovery of the americas, Francisco Pizarro, Frank Gehry, G4S, gentrification, glass ceiling, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, intermodal, Islamic Golden Age, land reform, large denomination, low cost airline, megaproject, place-making, Skype, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Winter of Discontent, young professional

What’s here is just back from the clamorous streets of downtown but close enough to get around the centre on foot. It’s a good choice for budget travellers. Cat’s Hostel (Map; 91 369 28 07; www.catshostel.com; Calle de Cañizares 6; dm €19, d from €24; Antón Martín; ) Now here’s something special. The internal courtyard is Madrid’s finest – lavish Andalucian tilework, a fountain, a spectacular glass ceiling and stunning Islamic decoration, surrounded on four sides by an open balcony. There’s also a softly lit and supercool basement bar, where occasional live flamenco cohabits with free internet connections. Mad Hostel (Map; 91 506 48 40; www.madhostel.com; Calle de Cabeza 24; dm €20; Antón Martín; ) From the same people who brought you Cat’s Hostel, Mad Hostel is similarly filled with a buzzing vibe.

Hotel La Residència (972 25 83 12; www.laresidencia.net; Avinguda de la Caritat Serinyana 1; s/d €70/95; ) In the heart of town, with just a dozen good-sized rooms, this hotel oozes history. It opened in 1904 and Picasso stayed here six years later. Nowadays the place has a studied, classy air. A beautiful stained-glass ceiling creates a light well in the main staircase, and decorative details range from Dalí to rococo. The best rooms look out to sea. Hotel Llané Petit (972 25 10 20; www.llanepetit.com; Carrer del Doctor Bartomeus 37; d €120-132; ) A four-storey place right on the bay, the hotel is perhaps not as ‘petit’ as all that (it has 35 rooms), but the location is splendid and all the rooms have a generous balcony to sit on.


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The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, Apollo 13, barriers to entry, Bayesian statistics, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Bob Noyce, Bonfire of the Vanities, business cycle, business process, butterfly effect, capital asset pricing model, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carl Icahn, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, commoditize, compensation consultant, corporate governance, corporate raider, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, deskilling, discounted cash flows, disintermediation, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, eat what you kill, Fairchild Semiconductor, family office, financial engineering, financial innovation, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, global pandemic, Gordon Gekko, hiring and firing, Ida Tarbell, impact investing, income inequality, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, job-hopping, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kickstarter, Kōnosuke Matsushita, London Whale, Long Term Capital Management, market fundamentalism, Menlo Park, Michael Milken, new economy, obamacare, oil shock, pattern recognition, performance metric, Pershing Square Capital Management, Peter Thiel, planned obsolescence, plutocrats, profit maximization, profit motive, pushing on a string, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, random walk, rent-seeking, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Skype, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, survivorship bias, TED Talk, The Nature of the Firm, the scientific method, Thorstein Veblen, Tragedy of the Commons, union organizing, urban renewal, vertical integration, Vilfredo Pareto, War on Poverty, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, women in the workforce, Y Combinator

Gras) the School’s first Casebook in American Business History in 1939—she was initially limited to her research, with little to no focus on teaching, and wasn’t promoted to the faculty (as an assistant professor) until 1936, seven years after giving up a professorship for the opportunity to come to HBS. The next step up took less time, if only marginally so: She was made an associate professor in 1942. But at that point, she hit the glass ceiling. (HBS did make her a full professor in 1961, the year she retired. But it was a ceremonial gesture, nothing more. The fact that the powers that be at the School considered the move a congratulatory one rather than a final reminder of the career-long insult they had perpetrated on her says more than enough about sexism at HBS in the 1960s.)


Fodor's Costa Rica 2013 by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

airport security, Berlin Wall, buttonwood tree, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, David Attenborough, glass ceiling, GPS: selective availability, haute cuisine, off-the-grid, Pepto Bismol, place-making, restrictive zoning, satellite internet, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, urban sprawl

. | Average main: $10 | South end of Golfito main street just north of Hotel Las Gaviotas | 60701 | 2775–0192 | www.hotelmarylunaandsuites.com. Restaurante Vitrales. $$$ | COSTA RICAN | Dining here is both an aesthetic and gastronomic experience, in a spectacular, oval dining room reminiscent of a 1930s ocean liner, with dark-wood wood paneling; two monumental, fish-theme wall murals, and a stained-glass ceiling (the vitrales in the restaurant’s name). Happily, the food—sophisticated, modern Costa Rican—is as beautifully presented and prepared as the outstanding decor. The pejibaye (peach palm fruit) soup is a taste and textural sensation—nutty and creamy, flavored with avocado and apples, and studded with crispy croutons.


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This Sceptred Isle by Christopher Lee

agricultural Revolution, Berlin Wall, British Empire, colonial rule, Corn Laws, cuban missile crisis, Easter island, Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, failed state, financial independence, flying shuttle, glass ceiling, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, Johannes Kepler, Khartoum Gordon, Khyber Pass, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, Monroe Doctrine, Nelson Mandela, new economy, Northern Rock, Ronald Reagan, sceptred isle, spice trade, spinning jenny, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, urban decay

Moreover, the most effective means of military reward, promotion, could well be out of the hands of a commanding officer. Meanwhile, lower down the scale, junior soldiers felt they were not being rewarded for their capabilities. There were Indian officers. Many of these, Company men, remember, were equally dissatisfied with the nineteenth-century glass ceiling that prevented their rise, even when long-served, to anything more than junior and strictly subordinate roles. It might not be a coincidence that the mutinous regiments looked to these older and dissatisfied Indian officers for example and leadership. The differences and anomalies in the ways in which sepoys were treated were not accepted by all British administrators.


Cuba Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Bartolomé de las Casas, battle of ideas, business climate, car-free, carbon footprint, company town, cuban missile crisis, G4S, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, Kickstarter, Monroe Doctrine, new economy, off-the-grid, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, transatlantic slave trade, transcontinental railway, transfer pricing, urban planning

Anyone with even a passing interest in Cuba’s architectural heritage will want to check out this colonial jewel, complemented with an elegant cafe and a popular bar-nightspot (from 8pm). Hotel Raquel HOTEL $$$ OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP ( 860-8280; cnr Amargura San Ignacio; s/d CUC$108/175; ) Encased in a dazzling 1908 palace (that was once a bank), the Hotel Raquel takes your breath away with its grandiose columns, sleek marble statues and intricate stained-glass ceiling. Painstakingly restored in 2003, the reception area in this marvelous eclectic building is a tourist sight in its own right – it’s replete with priceless antiques and intricate art nouveau flourishes. Behind its impressive architecture, the Raquel offers well-presented if noisy rooms, a small gym/sauna, friendly staff and a great central location.


Scandinavia by Andy Symington

call centre, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, connected car, edge city, Eyjafjallajökull, full employment, glass ceiling, Kickstarter, low cost airline, mass immigration, New Urbanism, North Sea oil, out of africa, period drama, retail therapy, Skype, the built environment, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, urban sprawl, walkable city, work culture , young professional

Top-floor rooms have air-conditioning, several rooms offer river views and the chic split-level courtyard is perfect for sophisticated chilling. Hotel Royal HOTEL €€ ( 700 11 70; www.hotelroyal.nu; Drottninggatan 67; s/d Skr1395/1595; ) Göteborg’s oldest hotel (1852) has aged enviably. The grand entrance has been retained, complete with painted glass ceiling and sweeping staircase, and the elegant, airy rooms make necessary 21st-century concessions like flat-screen TVs and renovated bathrooms. There’s also homemade cake for guests. Avalon HOTEL €€€ ( 751 02 00; www.avalonhotel.se; Kungstorget 9; s/d from Skr1890/2290; ) The showy, design-conscious Avalon is steps away from the main tourist office.


I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe

back-to-the-land, British Empire, clean water, dematerialisation, glass ceiling, public intellectual, stem cell, the scientific method, working poor

All were close-knit and worked together as one-and joked together as comrades-in-arms-on a team that had won the national championship last season with him in the bruising position of power forward. He looked at the picture above his locker.Jojo Johanssen soaring above a lot of flailing black arms and stuffing the ball against Michigan State in the Final Four in March. He had broken through the glass ceiling in this game.or he thought he had. Such speculations kept rolling around in his head while he took a shower and got dressed. He was so lost in his thoughts, he was surprised when he realized that he was the last player left in the locker room. Him and the polished oak lockers and the foul mouth of Doctor Dis were all that remained.


Great Britain by David Else, Fionn Davenport

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, Beeching cuts, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial rule, Columbine, congestion charging, country house hotel, credit crunch, Crossrail, David Attenborough, Etonian, food miles, gentrification, glass ceiling, global village, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, land reform, Livingstone, I presume, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, mega-rich, negative equity, new economy, North Ronaldsay sheep, North Sea oil, Northern Rock, offshore financial centre, period drama, place-making, retail therapy, Skype, Sloane Ranger, South of Market, San Francisco, Stephen Hawking, the market place, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Winter of Discontent

Expect tabouleh, falafel, brochettes, merguez (spicy lamb sausage) and wonderful grills from the indoor charcoal barbecue. De Luca ( 01223-356666; www.delucacucina.co.uk; 83 Regent St; mains £8-19.50; 11am-late) Contemporary-style and classic Italian food collide in this light-filled restaurant in the centre of town. The open kitchen, glass ceiling and exposed brickwork make it a bright and lively place to dine and with a great wine list and plenty of cocktails it’s as popular for long lunches as it is for boozy nights out. Rainbow Vegetarian Bistro ( 01223-321551; www.rainbowcafe.co.uk; 9a King’s Pde; mains £8.50-9.50; 10am-10pm Tue-Sat) First-rate vegetarian food and a pious glow emanate from this snug subterranean gem, accessed down a narrow passageway off King’s Pde.

Another impressive Buxton construction, the graceful curved terrace of the Crescent, is reminiscent of the Royal Crescent in Bath and is being transformed into a luxury hotel, due for completion in 2010. Just east of here is Cavendish Arcade, formerly a thermal bathhouse (you can still see the chair used for lowering the infirm into the restorative waters) with several craft and book shops and a striking coloured-glass ceiling. Opposite the Crescent, the Pump Room, which dispensed Buxton’s spring water for nearly a century, now hosts temporary art exhibitions. Just outside is St Ann’s Well, a fountain from which Buxton’s famous thermal waters still flow – and where a regular procession of tourists queue to fill plastic bottles and slake their thirst with the liquid’s ‘curative’ power.


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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon

3D printing, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airline deregulation, airport security, Apple II, barriers to entry, big-box store, blue-collar work, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon tax, Charles Lindbergh, classic study, clean water, collective bargaining, computer age, cotton gin, creative destruction, deindustrialization, Detroit bankruptcy, discovery of penicillin, Donner party, Downton Abbey, driverless car, Edward Glaeser, en.wikipedia.org, Erik Brynjolfsson, everywhere but in the productivity statistics, feminist movement, financial innovation, food desert, Ford Model T, full employment, general purpose technology, George Akerlof, germ theory of disease, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Golden age of television, government statistician, Great Leap Forward, high net worth, housing crisis, Ida Tarbell, immigration reform, impulse control, income inequality, income per capita, indoor plumbing, industrial robot, inflight wifi, interchangeable parts, invention of agriculture, invention of air conditioning, invention of the sewing machine, invention of the telegraph, invention of the telephone, inventory management, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, jitney, job automation, John Markoff, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, labor-force participation, Les Trente Glorieuses, Lewis Mumford, Loma Prieta earthquake, Louis Daguerre, Louis Pasteur, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, Mark Zuckerberg, market fragmentation, Mason jar, mass immigration, mass incarceration, McMansion, Menlo Park, minimum wage unemployment, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, new economy, Norbert Wiener, obamacare, occupational segregation, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, payday loans, Peter Thiel, Phillips curve, pink-collar, pneumatic tube, Productivity paradox, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, refrigerator car, rent control, restrictive zoning, revenue passenger mile, Robert Solow, Robert X Cringely, Ronald Coase, school choice, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, Skype, Southern State Parkway, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Pinker, streetcar suburb, The Market for Lemons, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, transaction costs, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, undersea cable, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban sprawl, vertical integration, warehouse robotics, washing machines reduced drudgery, Washington Consensus, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, working poor, working-age population, Works Progress Administration, yellow journalism, yield management

During this period, stores operated on a cash-only policy that allowed them to pay their suppliers rapidly, and they made most of their profits on discounts from suppliers.81 These temples of merchandise became the prime sightseeing destinations of their cities, not least in the case of Marshall Field’s landmark State Street building, completed in 1907, with its Tiffany glass ceiling, both the first and the largest ceiling built of Tiffany’s unique iridescent art glass—containing 1.6 million pieces. With the large investment required to build these urban palaces, the owners needed to find a way to draw the shoppers to the upper floors. Marshall Field had an entire floor of restaurants and cafes on its seventh floor, sometimes with live musical performers, to draw shoppers upward on the newfangled elevators.


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The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen

airport security, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, British Empire, disinformation, drone strike, dual-use technology, facts on the ground, failed state, friendly fire, glass ceiling, hiring and firing, Internet Archive, Khyber Pass, land reform, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, plutocrats, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, trade route, union organizing, uranium enrichment, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

Khalqi roots were firmly planted in eastern Afghanistan, where the Pashtunistan cause enjoyed the greatest popularity; the majority non-Pashtuns in Parcham were not interested in the Pashtunistan issue. The Khalqis recruited frequently from the middle and lower ranks of the officer corps where eastern Pashtuns, such as Watanjar, Sarwari, and Gulabzoi, were heavily represented. They resented the Durrani glass ceiling Daoud had imposed that blocked their advancement to the top of the military establishment. Daoud had not promoted any officers trained in the Soviet Union to general officer rank. The Parchamis predominated in the civil bureaucracy. Khalqi women and girls stayed at home; Parchami women and girls were often educated and in the workforce.


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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Ayatollah Khomeini, Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, card file, conceptual framework, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, Edward Snowden, facts on the ground, friendly fire, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, Marshall McLuhan, operational security, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Stuxnet, unit 8200, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks, Yom Kippur War

speedy movement from rest to a firing position Beckerman’s instinct shooting is also used by undercover Shin Bet air marshals who fly on El Al flights. Beckerman’s technique is now taught in the secret Shin Bet firing range east of Tel Aviv. The range is built like a series of mazes, separated into rooms and staircases with nooks and crannies where cardboard enemies are hidden. It’s covered with a reinforced glass ceiling through which instructors can view trainees while they give commands over loudspeakers. The mazes are constructed so trainees can fire live ammunition in any direction, and sensors and cameras record every shot. Author’s visit to the Shin Bet firing range, May 2005. Then recruits needed training in one more skill: makeup Interview with Yarin Shahaf, January 22, 2013.


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The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans

agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anton Chekhov, British Empire, clean water, company town, Corn Laws, demographic transition, Edward Jenner, Ernest Rutherford, Etonian, European colonialism, feminist movement, Ford Model T, full employment, gentleman farmer, germ theory of disease, glass ceiling, Great Leap Forward, hiring and firing, Honoré de Balzac, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, imperial preference, income inequality, independent contractor, industrial cluster, Isaac Newton, it's over 9,000, Jacquard loom, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, joint-stock company, Khartoum Gordon, land bank, land reform, land tenure, Livingstone, I presume, longitudinal study, Louis Blériot, Louis Daguerre, Louis Pasteur, means of production, minimum wage unemployment, mittelstand, Monroe Doctrine, moral panic, New Urbanism, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, pneumatic tube, profit motive, railway mania, Ralph Waldo Emerson, safety bicycle, Scaled Composites, Scientific racism, Scramble for Africa, source of truth, spinning jenny, strikebreaker, Suez canal 1869, the scientific method, Thomas Malthus, trade route, University of East Anglia, Upton Sinclair, urban renewal, vertical integration

In 1901, for example, the first Nobel Prize for Physics went to Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), who had discovered electromagnetic radiation, or X-rays, in 1895, while nearly half the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry in the same period were awarded to Germans. Although science was still overwhelmingly the province of men, some women did break through science’s glass ceiling, most notably the Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie (1867–1934), whose research led her to coin the term ‘radioactivity’. With her husband Pierre Curie (1859–1906), in 1898 she discovered two new elements, which they named ‘radium’ and ‘polonium’ (she was a passionate Polish nationalist).


The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide to...) by Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs

Bletchley Park, British Empire, call centre, colonial rule, disinformation, Easter island, Eratosthenes, European colonialism, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Khartoum Gordon, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, Livingstone, I presume, satellite internet, self-driving car, sexual politics, Skype, spice trade, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, sustainable-tourism, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, Wall-E, Yom Kippur War

Nearby are three wonderful belle époque department stores, though all are now but shadows of their former selves. Only Sednaoui, just off Sharia Khulud (aka Clot Bey), still functions as a single grand store, and it’s worth popping in to check out the atrium with its huge chandeliers and spectacular glass ceiling. Omar Effendi on Sharia Abdel Aziz, and Tiring, just off Midan Ataba itself, have long been divided up into offices and smaller shops, but their early twentieth-century exteriors are still impressive. Tiring, topped by a globe upheld by four Atlas figures, is known to Egyptians as the Al-Tofaha Building after a 1997 film of that name, in which the star, Leila Elwi admires the globe from her rooftop hovel.


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Frommer's Hawaii 2009 by Jeanette Foster

airport security, California gold rush, Charles Lindbergh, Easter island, glass ceiling, gravity well, haute couture, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, machine readable, Maui Hawaii, off-the-grid, place-making, polynesian navigation, retail therapy, South China Sea, sustainable-tourism, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Yogi Berra

The separate guesthouse, with an ocean view from the lanai, is professionally decorated with comfort in mind, from the very cozy rattan furniture to the king-size sofa bed. There’s a separate bedroom with a queen-size bed and a small but utilitarian kitchenette. But the surprise is the unique bathroom with glass ceiling and walls (with privacy curtains), which opens onto a garden area. P.O. Box 667, Hana, HI 96713. & 808/248-8890. Fax 808/248-4865. www.mauibandb.com. 1 unit. $250 double for 1 night ($225 per night for 2 nights; $200 per night for 3 nights). AE, MC, V. In room: TV/VCR, kitchenette, fridge, coffeemaker, cellphone.


Lonely Planet Ireland by Lonely Planet

bank run, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, bike sharing, Bob Geldof, British Empire, carbon footprint, Celtic Tiger, classic study, country house hotel, credit crunch, Easter island, G4S, glass ceiling, global village, haute cuisine, hydraulic fracturing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jacquard loom, Kickstarter, land reform, reserve currency, sustainable-tourism, three-masted sailing ship, young professional

They also do good brunches and gourmet sandwiches. BankBAR ( GOOGLE MAP ; www.facebook.com/bankrestaurantnewry; 1-2 Trevor Hill; hnoon-11.30pm Mon-Thu, 9am-1.30am Fri-Sun) A gorgeous old grey-stone former bank houses this huge bar/nightclub. It combines some of the building's original features, including a stained-glass ceiling dome, with contemporary decor, such as neon fuchsia lighting. The sheltered South American–style beer garden has a stage for live music (every Saturday night) and enormous earthenware pots. It has good bistro food too. 8Information Newry Visitor Information CentreTOURIST INFORMATION ( GOOGLE MAP ; %028-3031 3170; www.visitmournemountains.co.uk; Castle St; h9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat Sep-Jun, 9am-5.30pm Mon, 9am-6pm Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat Jul & Aug, plus 1-5pm Sun Jun-Sep) In Bagenal's Castle, along with the Newry & Mourne Museum. 8Getting There & Away Bus Newry's bus station is on the Mall, opposite the Canal Court Hotel.


Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition) by Fionn Davenport

air freight, Berlin Wall, Bob Geldof, British Empire, carbon credits, carbon footprint, Celtic Tiger, centre right, classic study, country house hotel, credit crunch, Easter island, glass ceiling, global village, haute cuisine, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jacquard loom, Kickstarter, McMansion, new economy, period drama, reserve currency, risk/return, sustainable-tourism, three-masted sailing ship, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, young professional

Also recommended: Porter House ( 098-28014; Bridge St) Live music plays every night year-round at the Porter House, as well as weekend afternoons in summer. Jester Bar ( 098-29255; Bridge St) No céilidhs, no talk of fishing – urban grooves set the pace at this hipster hang-out. Cosy Joe’s ( 098-29403; Bridge St) Beneath a backlit stained-glass ceiling, musicians and DJs entertain the masses at this party-hard pub. Getting There & Away Bus Éireann ( 096-71800) travels to Achill Island (€12.50, 30 minutes, two daily), Dublin (€18.50, five hours, three daily), Galway (€14.40, two hours, eight daily) and Sligo (€16.70, two hours, two daily).


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The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew

Able Archer 83, active measures, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, Boeing 747, British Empire, classic study, Clive Stafford Smith, collective bargaining, credit crunch, cuban missile crisis, Desert Island Discs, disinformation, Etonian, Fall of the Berlin Wall, false flag, G4S, glass ceiling, illegal immigration, information security, job satisfaction, large denomination, liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view, Mahatma Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neil Kinnock, North Sea oil, operational security, post-work, Red Clydeside, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, Ronald Reagan, sexual politics, strikebreaker, Suez crisis 1956, Torches of Freedom, traveling salesman, union organizing, uranium enrichment, Vladimir Vetrov: Farewell Dossier, Winter of Discontent, work culture

Agent-running courses for new entrants started in 1975 and rudimentary management training began in 1977.19 Those members of the Security Service who were least happy with its management, recruitment and training at the start of the Hanley era were the female graduates, who felt – one of them recalls – that they were expected ‘to develop into good NCOs’ rather than senior managers.20 Their views were shared by many professional women throughout British society, who complained of the ‘glass ceiling’ which kept them out of top jobs and the ‘golden pathway’ to promotion signposted by and for men. Expectations in Whitehall were raised by the introduction in January 1971 of a new civil service training grade for both male and female honours graduates direct from university.21 The Service failed to follow suit.


Caribbean Islands by Lonely Planet

Bartolomé de las Casas, big-box store, British Empire, buttonwood tree, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial rule, cuban missile crisis, discovery of the americas, Donald Trump, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, income inequality, intermodal, jitney, Kickstarter, machine readable, microcredit, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, place-making, retail therapy, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, sustainable-tourism, urban planning, urban sprawl, white picket fence

Habaguanex has restored the building (constructed in 1836) with loving attention to detail, with the amply furnished rooms retaining their original high ceilings and wonderfully luxurious finishes. Hotel Raquel HOTEL $$ ( 860-8280; cnr Amargura & San Ignacio; s/d CUC$100/160; ) Encased in a dazzling 1908 palace (once a bank), the Hotel Raquel takes your breath away with its grandiose columns, sleek marble statues and intricate stained-glass ceiling. Behind its impressive architecture, the hotel offers well-presented if noisy rooms, a small gym/sauna, friendly staff and a great central location. Hotel Santa Isabel HOTEL $$$ ( 860-8201; Baratillo No 9; s/d incl breakfast CUC$150/240; ) Considered one of Havana’s finest hotels, as well as one of its oldest (it first began operations in 1867), the Hotel Santa Isabel is housed in the Palacio de los Condes de Santovenia, the former crash pad of a decadent Spanish count.


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Frommer's Mexico 2009 by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp, Juan Christiano

airport security, AltaVista, Bartolomé de las Casas, centre right, colonial rule, Day of the Dead, East Village, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, low cost airline, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Skype, sustainable-tourism, the market place, urban planning, young professional

Amenities: 4 restaurants; wine bar; heated indoor swimming pool; fully equipped fitness center; limited spa services; Jacuzzi; concierge; full-service business center; room service; laundry service; dry cleaning. In room: A/C, TV, Wi-Fi, minibar, coffeemaker, hair dryer, safe. M O D E R AT E Best Western Hotel Majestic A Mexico City institution that visitors should experience at least once, this classic hotel has a prime location facing the zócalo—reason enough to stay here. The lobby’s glass ceiling is the floor of a sitting area surrounded by guest rooms. Rooms that don’t overlook the zócalo overlook Avenida Madero or the hotel’s inner court. The lobby and courtyard are decorated with stone 09 285619-ch05.qxp 7/22/08 10:54 AM Page 119 W H E R E T O S TAY 119 arches, beautiful tiles, and stone fountains.


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Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes

Admiral Zheng, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Atahualpa, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bartolomé de las Casas, book value, British Empire, business cycle, Cape to Cairo, classic study, clean water, colonial rule, Columbian Exchange, computer age, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, deindustrialization, deskilling, European colonialism, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial intermediation, Francisco Pizarro, germ theory of disease, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, income inequality, Index librorum prohibitorum, interchangeable parts, invention of agriculture, invention of movable type, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, it's over 9,000, James Watt: steam engine, John Harrison: Longitude, joint-stock company, Just-in-time delivery, Kenneth Arrow, land tenure, lateral thinking, Lewis Mumford, mass immigration, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Monroe Doctrine, Murano, Venice glass, new economy, New Urbanism, North Sea oil, out of africa, passive investing, Paul Erdős, Paul Samuelson, Philip Mirowski, rent-seeking, Right to Buy, Robert Solow, Savings and loan crisis, Scramble for Africa, Simon Kuznets, South China Sea, spice trade, spinning jenny, Suez canal 1869, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, transaction costs, transatlantic slave trade, Vilfredo Pareto, zero-sum game

As cities have grown, commuting to work is a long travail. Fathers see much less o f home and children, but that has only enhanced the role and responsibilities of women. Also soured many o f them on the alleged joys o f marriage. Women now attend universities with the men, get advanced degrees, seek executive careers. They still bump against the glass ceiling, and they remain shy, even tongue-tied, in the presence of men. But many are ready to give up on family to concentrate on career. In a society where male commuters have litde time for wife and children, single women do not want for attention. Muslims would say, I told you so. When I visited Japan in 1991 and was received to dinner, the hostess, if grandmotherly, would decline to dine with the men, but she served.


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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed. by Patricia Schultz

Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Boeing 747, Bretton Woods, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, country house hotel, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Donald Trump, East Village, El Camino Real, estate planning, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, interchangeable parts, Mars Rover, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, Mikhail Gorbachev, Murano, Venice glass, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, new economy, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, sexual politics, South of Market, San Francisco, Suez canal 1869, The Chicago School, three-masted sailing ship, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, wage slave, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, éminence grise

Located right in the middle of Pottsville, it’s a 19th-century time warp, a big redbrick slab with steep, narrow stairs, wet floors, and tunnels underneath, where they used to store the beer. Tours begin at the beginning, with visitors peering into the brew kettles to see the as-yet-unfermented beer. Don’t miss the stained-glass ceiling, installed in 1888. Other stops include a museum display; the bottling line; a peak into the brewmaster’s office; the old racking room (aka the kegging room); and, best of all, a visit to the old storage caves, carved out in 1831 and maintaining a constant 42-degree temperature year-round. The tour ends in the old-fashioned taproom bar, built in 1936 and hung with decades’ worth of Yuengling memorabilia.


Lonely Planet Mexico by John Noble, Kate Armstrong, Greg Benchwick, Nate Cavalieri, Gregor Clark, John Hecht, Beth Kohn, Emily Matchar, Freda Moon, Ellee Thalheimer

AltaVista, Bartolomé de las Casas, Burning Man, call centre, clean water, colonial rule, company town, Day of the Dead, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, informal economy, language acquisition, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, New Urbanism, off grid, off-the-grid, place-making, Rosa Parks, Rubik’s Cube, Skype, sustainable-tourism, trade route, traffic fines, urban sprawl, wage slave

TOP END Hampton Inn & Suites (Map; 8000-5000; http://hamptoninn1.hilton.com; Calle 5 de Febrero 24; r incl breakfast from M$1422, ste from M$2540; Zócalo; ) This well-preserved historic gem has undergone an impressive makeover. Well-appointed rooms and large suites with contemporary furnishings surround a six-story atrium with a stained-glass ceiling. The rooftop terrace makes for a superb spot to unwind. NH Centro Histórico (Map; 5130-1850; www.nh-hotels.com; Palma 42; r/ste incl breakfast M$1485/1958; Zócalo; ) Riding the downtown development wave, Spanish chain NH planted a branch in the center. Lounges and rooms get a Euro-minimal treatment normally associated with pricier digs.


Lonely Planet France by Lonely Planet Publications

banking crisis, bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, David Sedaris, double helix, Frank Gehry, G4S, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute couture, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, illegal immigration, Jacquard loom, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Kickstarter, Louis Blériot, Louis Pasteur, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, ride hailing / ride sharing, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, Suez canal 1869, supervolcano, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, urban renewal, urban sprawl, V2 rocket

You can also catch them aboard Le Petit Chart’ Train late circuits (adult/child €6.50/3; daily Jul & Aug, Fri & Sat May, Jun & Sep) or on night walking tours (adult/child €12/8; Jul & Aug) in English. Sleeping Chartres is a convenient stop en route to the Loire Valley. Best Western Le Grand Monarque HOTEL Offline map Google map ( 02 37 18 15 15; www.bw-grand-monarque.com; 22 place des Épars; d/tr from €132/195; ) With its teal blue shutters gracing its 1779 facade, lovely stained-glass ceiling and treasure trove of period furnishings, old B&W photos and knick-knacks, the refurbished Grand Monarque (with air-con in some rooms) is a historical gem and very central. Its restaurant has a Michelin star; check the website for its program of three-hour cooking lessons (€55). Hôtel du Bœuf Couronné HOTEL Offline map Google map ( 02 37 18 06 06; www.leboeufcouronne.com; 15 place Châtelet; s €65-85, d €75-109; ) The red-curtained entrance lends a vaguely theatrical air to this two-star Logis guesthouse in the centre of everything.


USA Travel Guide by Lonely, Planet

1960s counterculture, active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Asilomar, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, big-box store, bike sharing, Biosphere 2, Bretton Woods, British Empire, Burning Man, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, Donner party, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, edge city, El Camino Real, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, glass ceiling, global village, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, immigration reform, information trail, interchangeable parts, intermodal, jitney, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, license plate recognition, machine readable, Mars Rover, Mason jar, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, obamacare, off grid, off-the-grid, Quicken Loans, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, retail therapy, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, starchitect, stealth mode startup, stem cell, supervolcano, the built environment, The Chicago School, the High Line, the payments system, three-martini lunch, trade route, transcontinental railway, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Virgin Galactic, walkable city, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional, Zipcar

The crown is again open to the public – numbers are limited, however, so reservations are required, as far in advance as possible. For those without crown reservations, a visit to Statue of Liberty National Monument means you can wander the grounds and enjoy the view from the 16-story observation deck; a specially designed glass ceiling lets you look up into the statue’s striking interior. The trip to its island, via ferry, is usually visited in conjunction with nearby Ellis Island. Ferries Offline map ( 201-604-2800, 877-523-9849; www.statuecruises.com; adult/child $13/5; every 30min 9am-5pm, extended summer hr) leave from Battery Park.