brass ceiling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
brass (“indicating high-ranking officers”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”)
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Noun[edit]
brass ceiling (plural brass ceilings)
- (idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to promotion or progression for women in law enforcement or the military.
- 2004, Dorothy Moses Schulz, Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top, Greenwood Publishing, →ISBN:
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References[edit]
- “brass ceiling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.