The glass ceiling is a term coined for the invisible barrier to movement in the very top positions in business and government, making it difficult for women to reach the top of their profession (Appelbaum and Chambliss 1997). ... Am I going to knock myself out for the next twenty years only to be passed over for a man? ... The fact that there are so few women at the top of the ladder is very discouraging to them, let alone the fact that women still only earn approximately 75 percent of what a man earns in the same career. ... So if there are many women in a large retail corporation, they are m...

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Jack Nicholson plays a rich man in his sixties, Harry Sanborn, who only dates women under thirty. ... Gail Dines writes in the chapter "Visible or Invisible: Growing Up Female in Porn Culture" used in the book Composing Gender by Rachael Groner and John F. ... Dines gives examples from the HBO series Sex and the City and points out "In their desire to get a man and keep him, they were willing to do anything, even if they felt uncomfortable" (Dines). ... Steinem argues, "Consider whether the ridicule of a woman would be directed against a man" (Steinem). ... In al...

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