Panes of the Glass Ceiling

The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity

By: Kerri Lynn Stone

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Paperback | 23 June 2022

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258 Pages

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More than fifty years of civil rights legislation and movements have not ended employment discrimination. This book reframes the discourse about the âglass ceilingâ that women face with respect to workplace inequality. It explores the unspoken, societally held beliefs that underlie and engender workplace behaviour and failures of the law, policy, and human nature that contribute âpanesâ and (âpainsâ) to the âglass ceiling.â Each chapter identifies an âunspoken beliefâ and connects it with failures of law, policy, and human nature. It then describes the resulting harm and shows how this belief is not imagined or operating in a vacuum, but is pervasive throughout popular culture and society. By giving voice to previously unvoiced â" even taboo â" beliefs, we can better address and confront them and the problems they cause.

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Although the term "glass ceiling" entered gender-discrimination discourse over thirty years ago, Kerri Lynn Stone presents a creative and provocative reimagination of it as nine "panes of clear glass" or unspoken beliefs that "eventually form a thick and opaque barrier." In all my years pondering and experiencing this problem, I've never come across a more translucent articulation of these institutional barriers or how they contribute to systemic, gendered workplace discrimination. Anne Marie Lofaso, Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law
'A valuable addition to the literature, this thoughtful book should find a home on the shelves of academics, students, advocates, and policy makers alike.' Morgan L. W. Hazelton, Perspectives on Politics
'... the book explains the relevant legal doctrines for those who are not as familiar with United States law, [and] its real contribution is in laying bare the connection between the doctrine and specific cultural/societal beliefs ... this book [is] a complement to a law school casebook, to draw attention to the unspoken beliefs that find their way into the law and are normalised there.' Emily Gold Waldman, Feminist Legal Studies

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