Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
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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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Collins and I trained for the shuttle together, flew jets together, and waited together for that first chance to rocket into space. In Through the Glass Ceiling, Eileen tells the inspiring story of how she rose through hard work and determination to become a rare exemplar of the ‘right stuff,’ leading her
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that you too can go farther, faster, and higher, just as I have. The world needs more people—women and men—to break through the glass ceiling. And to the stars? Well, as far as we humans know, the size of the universe is infinite, so you better get moving! ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Writing
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
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you work hard and are determined enough then you too can be a success. The tale, as with many social mobility success stories, was of glass ceilings smashed, multiple career successes achieved and this success allowing people to leave their humble origins behind. Nick Timothy recalls a similar tale of former Education
The Rough Guide to Mexico
by Rough Guides · 15 Jan 2022
you’ll be shown the amazing Tiffany glass curtain depicting the Valley of México and volcanoes, as well as the detailed proscenium mosaic and stained-glass ceiling. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes If you want to see more of the building, you might consider visiting the art museum on the middle
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this top-notch renovated rooftop restaurant bar, and on the way up you can even snatch a peek at the Gran Hotel’s amazing Tiffany glass ceiling. You could just pop up for one of their enormous cocktails (the house speciality is a gargantuan strawberry margarita), but then you’d be missing
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want one with period features in the oldest part of the hotel, ask for one in the zona antigua. The lobby has an amazing stained-glass ceiling, and a cosy little bar just off it. Breakfast included. M$$$ Posada la Casona de Cortés Lardizábal 6; 246 462 2042; http://lacasonadecortes.com.mx
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faded glory is your thing, you’ll love the Imperial, an eighteenth-century building whose once magnificent public areas boast marble floors, a striking stained-glass ceiling and the first lift installed in Mexico (still going strong). At the time of writing, long-standing plans to elevate the space from a dusty
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged
by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison · 28 Jan 2019
, ‘class is something beneath your clothes, under your skin, in your reflexes, your psyche, at the very core of your being’.70 Lessons from the glass ceiling A wealth of research suggests, then, that class origin casts a long shadow over people’s lives. Yet this work stops short of interrogating precisely
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on the experiences of members of racialethnic minority groups and white women in the elite labour market. Here the metaphor of glass, and particularly the glass ceiling, has been usefully deployed to highlight the invisible yet durable barriers that these groups face in achieving the same rewards as white men in the
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social connections that help people find out about job opportunities and navigate promotions.73 17 The Class Ceiling The key point that emerges from this glass-ceiling literature is that what we conventionally understand as ‘merit’ is not the only, or maybe even the main, determinant of career success. Study upon study
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also been historically excluded from elite occupations74 (albeit for different reasons), so to what extent might the mechanisms driving the glass ceiling also apply to class origin? But connecting insights about the glass ceiling to the topic of class is not just about drawing parallels. After all, class, gender, race (and many other aspects
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success as those from more privileged backgrounds. In the next chapter we therefore shift our focus from access to progression. Specifically, and drawing on the ‘glass ceiling’ concept so fruitfully developed by feminist scholars, we examine whether there is also a ‘class ceiling’ at play in the UK. 44 TWO Getting on
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things were very different. Dedicated to publishing the names of all staff earning over £150,000, the report uncovered for the first time a striking glass ceiling at ‘The Beeb’. Specifically it showed that over two-thirds of high-earners were men, as well as all seven of the highest paid BBC
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particularly striking among the women we spoke to. It is widely acknowledged that architecture is one of the worst professions when it comes to the glass ceiling.28 Although feted as one of the better practices for overall gender representation, Coopers was no different. None of the practice’s 15 Partners were
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these questions it is first helpful to introduce the concept of the ‘glass slipper’, a metaphor that builds on, and develops, insights related to the ‘glass ceiling’. The glass slipper metaphor, developed by American scholar Karen Ashcraft, captures the way in which particular occupations come to appear possessed of inherent characteristics that
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parts of the profession outside our case study, especially in the more prestigious design-led37 firms.38 More starkly, readers will remember that a profound glass ceiling exists at Coopers. None of the firm’s 15 Partners are women. This is an inequality echoed in the wider architecture profession, where the litany
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Coopers was driven purely by neutral technical competence or learnable business skills. Breaking the class ceiling, in other words, does not necessarily imply breaking the glass ceiling. 143 The Class Ceiling ‘Merit’ is tricky: The tyranny of ‘fit’ When most people think about pay gaps, whether by gender, race or indeed any
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two research traditions that normally lie outside mainstream mobility analysis. Specifically, by synthesising elements of standard mobility analysis with both the feminist concept of the glass ceiling and an older tradition of elite recruitment studies, we are able to provide a large-scale, representative analysis of social mobility while also maintaining a
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structuring who gets to the very top. Second, we also want to reflect on our adoption in this book of the feminist concept of the glass ceiling, albeit recast in terms of a ‘class ceiling’. We should make it clear, here, that we are in no way asserting that the class ceiling
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has somehow replaced the glass ceiling, or implicitly suggesting, like many in the past, that class is some sort of ‘master-category’.21 Put simply, classorigin differences in the labour market
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do not operate in all the same ways as gender and ethnicity, and therefore retaining the specificity of the glass ceiling concept is clearly critical. Yet at the same time we believe that mobility analysis has much to learn from this literature.22 This is very
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long identified in studies of white women and people from racial-ethnic minority groups in traditionally male and white occupations.24 Of course synthesising the glass ceiling with mobility analysis also necessitates a sustained engagement with the concept of intersectionality.25 Traditionally, intersectionality has been at best under-theorised and at worst
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, such as sexuality, disability and migration, that we are not able to examine here. Finally, we also hope that our incorporation and adaptation of the glass-ceiling concept may act as a means of sharpening the tools of class analysis. Here in particular we see the ‘class ceiling’ as providing a new
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to emerge, cumulative knowledge to accumulate and political action to follow, in much the same way as has been achieved under the banner of the glass ceiling. Beyond snapshots: Capturing the long shadow of class origin As we have explained, our approach to social mobility partly represents a synthesis of standard quantitative
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approaches with insights from elite recruitment studies and glass ceiling research. The key issue that unites both these strands is a focus on not just who ‘gets in’ to elite occupations but who ‘gets ahead
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our findings suggest this is much less likely among women than men. Breaking the class ceiling, to reiterate, does not necessarily dovetail with breaking the glass ceiling. It is important to remember that, as Wacquant famously remarked, ‘Bourdieu’s work is not free of contradictions, gaps, tensions, puzzlements, or unresolved questions, and
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same old stereotypes – the battered wife, the Shakespearean jester or the ‘Black nurse’ – that bear no relation to their lived experience. Moreover, as the voluminous glass-ceiling literature demonstrates, these groups also face many non-class-related hurdles in getting their ‘merit’ to stick. Indeed, we in no way intend this book
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to suggest that the class ceiling is somehow replacing or superseding the glass ceiling. This kind of assertion is fundamentally short-sighted. Class does not operate in a vacuum, and understanding the way inequalities interact to the detriment of
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in no way intend this to suggest the revival of class as some sort of overarching ‘master variable’, we do think that future work on glass ceilings and pay gaps may yield valuable intersectional insight by taking class origin into account where possible. Finally, we also see our work as extending the
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; they tend to perpetuate, to reproduce themselves, but they are not eternal’ (Bourdieu, 2005, p 45, emphasis added). Kuhn (2002, p 98). Of course, the ‘glass ceiling’ has itself been subject to substantial critique as well as theoretical refinement. There is a danger that the metaphor wrongly suggests gendered inequalities are apparent
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in society, with other axes of inequality ‘epiphenomena of little overall significance’ (Atkinson, 2015, p 81). 22 Although we would reiterate our awareness that the ‘glass ceiling’ has been subject to substantial critique, and that there is a danger that the metaphor wrongly suggests gendered inequalities are apparent only in the upper
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inequality’, American Behavioral Scientist, 50(5), 702-36 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764206295015). Weyer, B. (2007) ‘Twenty years later: Explaining the persistence of the glass ceiling for women leaders’, Women in Management Review, 22(6), 482-96 (https://doi.org/10.1108/09649420710778718). Whitely, W., Dougherty, T.W. and Dreher, G
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) 81–3, 105–7 belonging 174–5 culture of 164–8 and embodied cultural capital 206 female representation 82, 120–1 fitting in 140–3 glass ceiling 143, 207 hierarchy 83 internal and external culture 164–8 merit 225–6 opting out 175 parental financial support 105–7 privilege 82, 83fig 361
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226 and technical capital 207 and tradition 39–40 under-representation of females 42fig see also double disadvantage; glass ceiling; intersectionality gender pay gap 45–6, 49, 61, 143, 221 ‘gig economy’ 91, 241, 270 glass ceiling 17–19, 45, 120, 143, 186, 190–1, 218 glass escalator 310n24 glass slipper 124–7, 128
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, 206, 219 as barrier 149–50, 164, 167 Bourdieu on 200 and privileged networks 168 Ho, K. 306n28 Hoggart, R. 307n35 homophily 214–15 and glass ceiling 17, 190 sponsorships and 113–14, 119, 120, 121 horizontal segregation 69, 272 Hout, M. 61 human capital 88, 90 I imposter syndrome 179 Indian
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public spending cuts 7 Puwar, N. 158 R racial-ethnic minorities at 6TV 139 access to elite occupations 20–1, 43fig at Coopers 82 and glass ceiling 190 and higher education 280fig, 281fig and IQ 57 pay gap 49–50, 283fig progression 21 at Turner Clarke (TC) 114 and upward social mobility
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, M. 4 Weeden, K.A. and Grusky, D.B. 192 white ethnic group access and 43fig, 44 acting 94 class pay gap 49fig, 52fig, 60 glass ceiling 17, 190 glass slipper 126 and tradition 39 Who’s Who 148 Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K. 290n1, 307n8 Williams, D. 122 Williams, C.L
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