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pink ceilings

pink ceilings is the plural of pink ceiling.

Meaning of pink ceiling

Noun

pink ceiling (plural pink ceilings)

  1. An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.
    • That was nearly twenty years ago, and the Rev. David Norgard, who now serves as rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, has spent much of those two decades quietly cracking the pink ceiling in the Episcopal Church.1996 June 29, Don Lattin, “Gay Priest Is Cracking Through the Bias Ceiling”, in The San Francisco Chronicle
    Synonyms:
    rainbow ceiling

Questions about pink ceilings

What is pink ceilings the plural of?
Pink ceilings is the plural of pink ceiling.

Words near pink ceilings in the dictionary

  1. pink boxes
  2. pink bunny
  3. pink canoe
  4. pink cedar
  5. pink ceiling
  6. pink ceilings
  7. pink cigar
  8. pink cigars
  9. pink cloud syndrome
  10. pink clouding
  11. pink cocaine

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