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Tag Archives: glass ceiling
Being Pushed Over the Glass Cliff
Almost everyone’s heard of the glass ceiling, the inability of women and minorities to get promoted to higher levels of the executive ranks due to discrimination. What most probably haven’t heard about is the new “glass cliff”. NPR discussed it … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination
Tagged Discrimination, gender equality, gender gap, glass ceiling, glass cliff, jill abramson, New York Times, sexism
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Wesley Yang’s “Paper Tigers” and the APA Identity Crisis
When you open Wesley Yang’s “Paper Tigers” in New York Magazine, you will notice a half naked East Asian man starring blankly right back at you as its greeting. Playfully, you may think that the title evoke images of tigers … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Observations
Tagged Asian-American, bamboo ceiling, glass ceiling, identity crisis, self hatred, wesley yang
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Peering Through The Glass Ceiling
Readers of 8asians may not realize this, but writing for this blog doesn’t pay the rent, so most of the writers here have day jobs. I’m no exception. My day job is in marketing for a high technology company in … Continue reading