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美国总统选举中的Glass ceiling

Other underprivileged people face similar handicaps too, Asians, Hispanics, American Indians….

Which brings us back to "glass ceiling" the term. Although the term is most often used to indicate discrimination against women, “glass ceiling” can be used for anyone who is discriminated against and prevented from succeeding.

Here are a few examples:

1. THIS time last year it looked as if Hillary Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination would be a cakewalk. She had the best brand-name in American politics. She controlled the Democratic establishment. She had money to burn and a double-digit lead in the opinion polls. And as the first American woman to have a chance of breaking the presidential glass ceiling, she had a great story to tell.

2. Savio Rodrigues has published an interesting post about the adoption of commercial open source software that brings together his thoughts about open source business models and suggests that commercial open source vendors may be heading for a glass ceiling.

3. Government statistics show that for every 100 Asian Americans employed by a university in the United States, only six hold faculty or administrative positions.

Among African-Americans, 21 out of 100 are faculty members. For whites, the number is 16 out of 100, and for Hispanics, it's 15 out of 100. "It is a fact that when [scientists] come here, particularly from an Asian country, they almost put themselves back 10 years,"said Thomas Wagner, a professor of molecular medicine at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.