Editing Glass cliff (section)

{{Short description|Workplace phenomenon affecting women in leadership roles}}
{{About|workplace discrimination|the similarly named developmental psychology experiment|Visual cliff}}
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The '''glass cliff''' is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "[[glass ceiling]]" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in [[Women in business|business]] and [[Women in government|government]]) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies/ | title=Why women are often put in charge of failing companies | work=PBS NewsHour | date=September 22, 2015 | access-date=July 11, 2016 | author=Cooper, Marianne | archive-date=October 14, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014094500/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/women-often-put-charge-failing-companies/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Susanne |last1=Bruckmüller |first2=Nyla R. |last2=Branscombe |url=https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-women-end-up-on-the-glass-cliff |title=How Women End Up on the 'Glass Cliff' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104083223/https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-women-end-up-on-the-glass-cliff |url-status=live |archive-date=2022-11-04 |work=[[Harvard Business Review]] |year=2011 |access-date=11 November 2024 }}</ref> Other research has expanded the definition of the glass cliff phenomenon to include racial and ethnic minority groups.<ref name="Cook Glass 2015">{{cite journal |last1=Cook |first1=A. |last2=Glass |first2=C. |date=2013-05-01 |title=Glass Cliffs and Organizational Saviors: Barriers to Minority Leadership in Work Organizations? |journal=Social Problems |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=168–187 |doi=10.1525/sp.2013.60.2.168}}</ref>