Some statistics suggest that the glass ceiling and barriers to diverse professionals’ advancement may be weakening.

Much has been made of the fact that women today run 10.4% of Fortune 500 businesses. And at 52 female chief executives in total, it’s an encouraging 18% rise from this time last year.

But despite the growing national conversation about equality, women in business still struggle to advance beyond a certain point within their careers.

Equally insidious is the glass cliff phenomenon, whereby women have been put in high profile positions that are for lack of a better word, an impossible task or a poison chalice.

Read more at: https://thehill.com/lobbying/4109698-how-women-leaders-can-successfully-scale-the-glass-cliff/