English Explanatory Dictionary

bamboo ceiling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.
  2. A social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for women.

Word forms

bamboo ceiling bamboo ceilings

Etymology

Modeled on glass ceiling, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.

Related words

Bamboo Curtain
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