Comments on The glass ceiling still exists. Only 1 in 5 senior posts held by women in CanadaTypePad2013-02-19T20:35:48ZToronto Starhttps://thestar.blogs.com/worlddaily/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://thestar.blogs.com/worlddaily/2013/02/the-revolution-isnt-over-ladies-only-1-in-5-senior-posts-held-by-women-in-canada/comments/atom.xml/Nadine Lumley commented on 'The glass ceiling still exists. Only 1 in 5 senior posts held by women in Canada'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf8f353ef017d412dd965970c2013-02-20T15:40:50Z2013-02-20T17:00:59ZNadine Lumleyhttp://www.unseatHarper.caThe Glass Cliff: Women in Power Are Set Up to Fail Are women set up to fail — by being...<p>The Glass Cliff: Women in Power Are Set Up to Fail</p>
<p>Are women set up to fail — by being appointed to positions of power only in hopeless situations?</p>
<p>Like when a dept. is about to go under financially and the CEO puts a woman in charge knowing she's going to fail; then he runs around saying, SEE, women are useless.</p>
<p>It’s called it “the glass cliff,” which they contend is an invisible form of prejudice.</p>
<p>Two British academics say so, and they claim to have proved it this year. In one study, they took 83 businesspeople — roughly half of them women — and described to them two companies, one that was steadily improving in profitability and another that was steadily declining. The subjects were told to pick a new financial director for the firm and were presented with three candidates: a man and a woman who were identical in experience and a lesser-qualified male. </p>
<p>The subjects were slightly more likely to pick a man to lead the successful firm but were far more likely to pick the woman to lead the failing one. Two other experiments with similar designs yielded the same result: When presented with men and women to lead a company going down the tubes, people pick the woman.</p>
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