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The price of the glass cliff

The price of the glass cliff

Yeah, it's a thing, the "opportunity" successful women get when everything is broken. And it utterly sucks.

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Joanne C. Gerstner
May 12, 2023
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Entire forests have died at the behest of my elder sisters in the world, writing essays and books about the impact of the glass ceiling. How the patriarchy has held us womenfolk back, for a super long time, until one of us gets through.

Sally Ride. Billie Jean King. The women who are my sports writing mentors and heroes, the ones who went before me to ca…

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