What does Glass ceiling glass walls or glass escalator mean?

Answer 1

A glass ceiling in an organisation is an unofficially bar to the promotion of certain types of staff, normally women. It is called glass because its not obviously there, but it is in fact.

A glass escalator is an unofficial fast track promotion of certain types of staff, usually men, within an organisation. This is typical in female dominated organisations where men seem to have preferment.

Glass walls presumably prevent the sidewards movement of one type of staff whilst other types have no problem. It also applies when women or minorities can advance in certain fields or industries but not in other occupations.

Answer 2

a glass ceiling refers to a barrier between what one wants to acheive and oneself, usually created by society's expectations of what one can or can't do as part of a particular group, race of gender. By breaking a glass cieling, one succeeds to achieve more that what is seen as the limit to that person's abilities due to aforementioned parameters.

glass walls refers to a barrier made between yourself and others that, though there, does nothing to obstruct the view of either party, proving to be useless except to separate physically.

Glass escalators are any scheme plan or ideal which is in itself unlikely to succeed and most likely perish under even the slighest weight.

Answer 3

Glass ceiling refers to an invisible barrier that prevents women and minorities from advancing to top positions. Glass walls represent the segregation of certain groups into specific roles within an organization. Glass escalator refers to the phenomenon where men in female-dominated fields are able to advance more quickly due to gender biases.