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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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).

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.

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“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.

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., “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.

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.

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(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.’

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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.

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.”

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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“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.”

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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, 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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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—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.”

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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.

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.

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“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.

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’.

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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?’

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.

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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?

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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?’

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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.

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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.

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.

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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

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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.

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.

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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.”

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.

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.

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’.

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

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“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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.”

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!

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.”

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.

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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.

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 .

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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.

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.

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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.

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. $$ | 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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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“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.

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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.”

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

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.

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!)

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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. $$$$ | 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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?

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.

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?”

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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