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In the mid-1980s, the phrase ‘the glass ceiling’ was coined to refer to ‘an invisible but impermeable barrier that limited the career advancement of women’ (Burke and Vinnicombe, 2005: 165).In the UK some advancement has clearly been made sine then, with a greater number of women having entered the workplace and moved into management and the professions. At the same time, familiar patterns persist.Inequalities linked to pay, occupation and seniority continue, and women remain under-represented in the very upper echelons of work organizations – which are still dominated by an elite group of white men.
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© 2012 Nina Teasdale, Colette Fagan and Claire Shepherd
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Teasdale, N., Fagan, C., Shepherd, C. (2012). Women’s Representation on the Boards of UK-Listed Companies. In: Fagan, C., González Menéndez, M.C., Gómez Ansón, S. (eds) Women on Corporate Boards and in Top Management. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307735_7
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