#glass-cliff — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #glass-cliff, aggregated by home.social.
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If the #GlassCliff concept is new to you, here's a handy reference. See in particular the political section.
Canada knows it well from the Kim Campbell situation, handed a PM role as her predecessor Mulroney ran from the flames.
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Spanien: Können die Weltmeisterinnen endlich auch Europa erobern? EM-Vorschau
Nach der Dominanz der letzten Jahre kaum vorstellbar: Spanien konnte bisher nie einen EM-Titel gewinnen. Nach der WM 2023 und der Nations League 2024 ist damit das Ziel von Bonmatí, Putellas und Co klar: bei der Europameisterschaft in der Schweiz soll es endlich so weit sein.
Die Spanierinnen sind die absoluten Top-Favoritinnen und treffen in ihrer Gruppe B auf Portugal, Belgien und […]
#AitanaBonmatí #EM2025 #EURO2025 #Europameisterschaft #GlassCliff #JenniferHermoso #MarionaCaldentey #MontseTomé #RFEF #Spanien
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@stephanie @johnefrancis Big Kim-Campbell energy potentially coalescing here.
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I'm just going to leave this here
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@wecops
I'm pretty sure the glass ceiling and the broken rung on the ladder metaphors refer to the same thing: women, black people, and other members of marginalized groups don't get the same opportunities to grow their skills, prove their worth, or advance. The only way to fix this is, obviously, to ensure that those opportunities exist and that they aren't being looked over in favor of less qualified white males.But this is old news.
As a managerial scientist, the metaphor that interests me lately is something called the "#GlassCliff": when members of marginalized groups, especially women of color, actually do get into positions of power, they find themselves under a microscope, surrounded by people waiting to jump on them at the first sign of trouble. When something inevitably goes bad, you hear the chorus of people claiming that they weren't qualified, that they were a "diversity hire", as if this couldn't have happened under a white male.
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CW: EEpol
The mayor of Tallinn, Estonia has been removed by the city council in a motion of no confidence. The change seems to reflect more a political change — specifically, members of the mayor's party, the People's Central Party, incrementally leaving the party[1] while staying in the city council — than specific malfeasance of the mayor. (If you're only familiar with the American way of removals, which clothe removal of officers in language of crimes and misdemeanours, the parliamentary systems' 'no confidence' is expressly distinct from any punitive proceedings, and 'we don't have confidence that official XXX will execute the policy that we prefer' is widely considered an acceptable reason for removal.)
Due to these same political changes, the new mayor, Madle Lippus, is from the Social Democratic Party. As a reflection of the precariousness of her position, the exact minimum needed, 40 councilpeople out of 79, voted for her. It's probably, from what I can surmise, not an example of #GlassCliff as much as the Estonia's Social Democrats being more gender inclusive than the People's Central Party, though.
Coming back to the American political example, within a couple of USHR resignations, replacement of its speaker with a Democrat might become similarly politically possible.
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#Mulroney was also guilty of the classic #GlassCliff treatment of Kim Campbell.
He simultaneously set a prominent woman up for abject failure, and robbed anyone of the opportunity to be the celebrated and successful first female prime minister of Canada in the future.
He gave misogynists a generation worth of opportunities to say "well we tried a woman once, and we saw how that worked out."
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@samlitzinger good riddance, but it sucks to see her crooked boss get to benefit from the old #GlassCliff. 🙄
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The service is being throttled and metered by the hosting company... I'm certain of that.
It's the only thing that actually makes sense.
The company is going under shortly... tax write off for Elon for years to come and the new CEO is about to find out what the #GlassCliff is all about... exactly like some of us have been saying all along.
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Why did she take the job? Why would anyone take the #TwitterCEO job? You just know he's going to keep tweeting the way he does and soon those tweets will be there to — intentionally or unintentionally — undermine whatever his CEO says or does. It's even worse than the usual #GlassCliff women in leadership get.
This one possibly baffles me even more than the folks with established careers and reputations who accepted positions in DJT's government or legal teams.
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Well, #Twitter has a new CEO, and since it's a woman and the company is failing, everyone is bringing up the #glasscliff theory as a forward excuse.
Sadly, there's nothing, a woman can do to prevent falling victim to this patriarchic trap, like, let's say, turning down the job offer. So not wishing Twitter the best of luck henceforth is now a case of gender discrimination. Thank you #feminism. 🤦♂️
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Elon Musk sparred with new CEO Linda Yaccarino in on-stage interview: 3 takeaways from the exchange | AP News https://apnews.com/article/musk-twitter-ceo-yaccarino-interview-9327856331614e64163f50900c831bf4 it all seems like a show staged to impress advertisers. It won’t work. Bird is dead, the Nazi marketeer will take the fall for it. #Twitter #glasscliff
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The twitter CEO news makes me think of this classic Onion headline from 2008. #GlassCliff
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True to the #GlassCliff trope, #Twitter now has a female CEO. Women & their careers are expendable, so they routinely get appointed to lead enterprises that are circling the drain while the men are executing exit strategies. #Business as usual.
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What Else Musk is doing by stepping away as CEO and employing a women is likely a sign that Twitter is in real trouble and he needs, well, a fall...girl.
This has been seen before and is termed the #GlassCliff where companies who are in crisis employ a woman to blame when she eventually can't fix all the issues and the company inevitably fails.
If so, Twitter will likely be filing for bankruptcy within a couple of years.
There's no way Musk will be doing this because it's a positive thing.
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@georgetakei Within a year she will be ousted after Musk sets her up to take the fall for his own bad decisions. Not questioning her abilities, but his intentions. #GlassCliff
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@HamonWry oh, something will. A women will end up blamed #glasscliff
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Musk is bringing a woman CEO aboard to take the fall when it Twitter goes under. #glasscliff
(Not questioning her abilities, but his intentions.)
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是橙雨伞呀
2022/08/02 https://weibo.com/5939213490/N0f4jB7XI来了解一下“#玻璃悬崖效应”（#GlassCliff）！
硅谷科技圈最近有一个闪亮的名字：Susan Li。前些天Meta CEO扎克伯格在个人Facebook页面宣 布了最新的人事任命，Susan Li将担任Meta新任CFO。
作为亚裔女性，Susan Li出任CFO意味着打破“玻璃天花板”。她2005年本科毕业于斯坦福大学，学习经济学、数学和计算机科学。2008年，她就正式加入Meta（当时的Facebook），如今已在里面任职14年。
Susan Li的成就与突破毫无疑问值得看见，但从现有的报道看，SusanLi这一次也是临危受命。Meta公司上市10年来营收首次出现同比下滑，人们都在关注“新任的华裔女性CFO能否带领突围”。
其实，类似让女性于危机时刻担任团队领导的现象并不少见，学术界有一个专门的术语予以解释：#玻璃悬崖效应（Glass cliff），即当女性冲破玻璃天花板，晋升高级职位时，她们中的很多人发现自己正站在悬崖边上—一个不稳定的职位，失败的风险更高，但并不明显。
2004年，英国学者Michelle K．Ryan和Alexander Haslam提出了这个概念。她们研究了英国市值最高的一百家公司在任命新董事会成员前后的表现，发现任命女性进入董事会的公司比其他公司更可能在过去五个月中一直表现不佳。
休斯顿大学心理学教授Kristin J.Anderson表示， 公司可能会向女性提供“#玻璃悬崖”职位，因为他们认为女性“更容易被消耗，更适合做#替罪羊”。她表示，那些为女性提供“#玻璃悬崖”工作的组织相信，无论如何他们都将是赢家：如果女性成功了，公司会变得更好。如果她失败了，公司的情况也不会更糟，她会受到指责，公司会因平等和进步而受到赞誉，并且可以恢复以前任命男性的做法。
女性的职场之路，处处受限，步步脚踩偏见。 -
The term "glass cliff" describes a failing company which suddenly appoints a woman as CEO in place of a man. When the company fails, the woman is blamed instead of the man.
That is what poor crybaby Elon is doing right now.
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Study finds women are only 33% of US college presidents. Women presidents: 7 points less likely than men to say they were given a realistic picture of the institution's challenges; women of color: 17 pts less likely. This sets women up for a #GlassCliff https://www.diverseeducation.com/reports-data/article/15383134/minorities-and-women-make-gains-but-the-american-college-presidency-is-still-largely-white-and-male
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“…the phenomenon known in some circles as the glass cliff, wherein women, specifically those from underrepresented communities, are promoted into leadership positions during times of crisis and given a sometimes impossible task of fixing a broken culture.”
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #GlassCliff
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Black women may be even more likely to encounter a #GlassCliff. Appointed to positions to clean up messes they didn't create & then not supported. There's "tremendous pressure to get it right & perform perfection at all times no matter what."
https://fortune.com/2022/11/06/black-women-glass-cliff/