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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING TO THE STARS “Given the chance, I would long ponder trading places with Eileen Collins. Her book with Jonathan Ward is a grand collection of
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, F. and Kynaston, D. (2019) Engines of privilege: Britain’s private school problem. London: Bloomsbury Press. Guvenen, F., Kaplan, G. and Song, J. (2014) The glass ceiling and the paper floor: Gender differences among top earners, 1981–2012. NBER Working Papers, 20560. www.nber.org/ papers/w20560 Guyton, J., Langetieg, P., Reck
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New York Magazine article “Samurai Businessman.” Japanese companies were ruthless with the foreign companies they bought out. They quickly replaced senior management teams and instituted glass ceilings for top positions. Even today, few Japanese companies in the United States have non-Japanese senior executives. Often the gaijin they do have are mere
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big Japanese bank in New York, told me, “The worst thing a high-achieving American can do is work at a Japanese firm. They put glass ceilings everywhere and you get treated like you’re inferior. Once the economy gets better, I’m out of here.” Contrast this with Chinese companies. In
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Western brands. This trend has spurred concerns in the Western world that Chinese firms will acquire companies and then fire scores of workers or implement glass ceilings, much as Japanese companies did in the 1980s with non-Japanese executives. These worries are exaggerated, because Chinese and Japanese firms view the acquisition process
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better distribution channels into China, which are costly and hard to build for Western firms. Before selling to a Chinese company, instead of preparing for glass ceilings or massive layoffs, you should anticipate a culture clash owing to the more hands-on management style of Chinese firms’ founders and chairmen. Chinese Go
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$199,000/254,000/310,000; aiW) The best hotel in town, the Armenia has nine floors built around a vaulted interior atrium with a glass ceiling. The rooms are spacious, decked out with stylish guadua (bamboo) furniture, and many offer great views of the Cordillera Central or the city. There is
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a spectacular, oval dining room reminiscent of a 1930s ocean liner, with dark-wood wood paneling; two monumental, fish-theme wall murals, and a stained-glass ceiling (the vitrales in the restaurant’s name). Happily, the food—sophisticated, modern Costa Rican—is as beautifully presented and prepared as the outstanding decor. The
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) heads but none would recognize the former grand hotel since its zillion-dollar renovation two decades ago: results were mixed, from the gaudy (that lobby glass ceiling) to the great (the rooftop restaurant, which allows you to almost touch the dome of the Pantheon). Happily, it retains its prime position in the
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big” and looking too masculine, “like a female bodybuilder.” Assessing these responses, Dworkin concluded that social norms (and thus both men and women) impose a “glass ceiling on women’s muscular strength,” and that women are engaged in a “conscious struggle with what constitutes an acceptable upper limit on women’s strength
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and size.” There can be no doubt that NFF practices have yet to shatter the glass ceiling; that outmoded assumptions continue to define the upper limit of strength and muscularity for most women. But it is equally true that, since Dworkin’s
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Game History 8, no. 2 (2003): 3–19. Diem, Carl. “Physical Culture in Ancient Egypt.” Olympic Review, 1938. Dworkin, Shari L. “ ‘Holding Back’: Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women’s Muscular Strength.” Sociological Perspectives 44, no. 3 (2001): 333–51. Eskes, Tina B., Margaret Carlisle Duncan, and Eleanor M. Miller. “The Discourse
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