T o mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist has published its 14th annual glass-ceiling index. We rank 29 ...

Marilyn Loden, an advocate for workplace equality who coined the phrase “glass ceiling,” has died at the age 76, leaving behind a feminist legacy that inspired generations of women. Loden first said ...

Women haven't broken through the glass ceiling when it comes to participation in the stock market. Societal norms and ongoing ...

Once upon a time, there was a strong and resilient young woman named Cinderella, who lived with a mean, demanding, and, frankly, abusive stepmother and two bratty, dimwitted stepsisters. They spent ...

Sometimes the best way to shatter a glass ceiling is to forget it’s supposed to be there and keep walking toward what you want to build. I’ve never really experienced a glass ceiling. Not because they ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought an incalculable human toll, both in lives lost and livelihoods destroyed. This crisis has driven millions of women out of the workforce, with Black and Latina women ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. On the one hand, the challenges women often face while at ...

Over its decade of tracking women’s progress in the workforce, the Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index has registered very little improvement, as gendered structural barriers endure. Protesters march to ...