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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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • But predominantly, women face the glass-ceiling effect.

    Status of women in the 21st Century India 2009

  • The second glass-ceiling pattern, Double Binds, stems from what social scientists call "ambivalent sexism."

    Joan Williams: The New Normal: Die Childless at Thirty 2009

  • (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.)

    Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown. 2009

  • 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

  • Pro: If they won, Clinton would beat out Condi Rice in the glass-ceiling wars.

    The Pros and Cons of an Obama-Clinton Ticket 2008

  • 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

  • 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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