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Women on the Verge of a Glass-ceiling Breakdown
Author(s) -
Anne Rosenwald
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bioscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.761
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 2764-9350
pISSN - 2764-9342
DOI - 10.1525/bio.2011.61.10.12
Subject(s) - glass ceiling , ceiling (cloud) , materials science , political science , engineering , law , structural engineering
observation: Is the difference in achievement today a reflection of the difficulties that previous generations of women have had in gaining a foothold at the beginning of the pipeline and so will cease to be a problem in coming years as younger women in the pipeline mature? Or is it that women have a higher propensity to drop out of the pipeline than men, even today, and so the achievement gap will continue to be an issue in the future? If the latter is correct, what can and should be done?

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