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Sit in the back glass-ceiling- enclosed garden room next to sun-grown basil, rosemary and Thai chilies.
Farm Style on 43rd Emily Glazer 2011
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She appeals to all sorts of not overly bright Dr. Phil/People Magazine/UFO-curious types who are not politically engaged but like a pretty face and like celebrities and some who bought Hillary's glass-ceiling BS.
Hillary Weighs In On Lipstick-Gate, Doesn't Attack Palin 2009
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He wants to talk about what a good guy he is that he picked a woman but no-good Barack Obama is perpuating the glass-ceiling despite Hillary's 18 million heroic voters who got so badly cheated.
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But predominantly, women face the glass-ceiling effect.
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The second glass-ceiling pattern, Double Binds, stems from what social scientists call "ambivalent sexism."
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(As a white woman who has actually fought against sexism, I'm sick of the whining of glass-ceiling, upper-middle class feminists and of Clinton supporting men who never wrote about sexism at all until their candidate actually lost an election.)
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We call women the fairer sex, the weaker sex, etc and invent an institution called the glass-ceiling and make movies about it.
Where am I inconsistent? Steven Barnes 2009
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Pro: If they won, Clinton would beat out Condi Rice in the glass-ceiling wars.
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D is about my age - but I didn't go on into the Professoriat, but while I was a student the glass-ceiling wasn't that low - it was busy being exploded into a thousand pieces by militant Socialist-Feminists.
Tolerance and Acceptance Zoe Brain 2005
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Yes, I have taken career mania to inspirational new levels, in the manner of a one woman glass-ceiling smasher given free rein with the Thunderbirds Mole.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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