pink ceiling
pink ceiling · pink ceilings
An informal barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay…An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.
Meaning
1 sensesAn informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.
Origin
pink (“relating to homosexuals as a group within society”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barriepink (“relating to homosexuals as a group within society”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”), modeled after glass ceiling.
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plural: pink ceilings| Singular | pink ceiling |
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