ABSTRACT
Feminists describe the glass ceiling as the transparent barrier “that allows women to see, but not to obtain, the most prestigious jobs” in Corporate America.2 On her first day as Hewlett-Packard CEO, Carleton Fiorina proclaims that the glass ceiling no longer exists.3 Mary Sammons, Rite Aid CEO, refuses interviews which might lead to an implication that she is in any way different because of her gender.4 Three-fourths of male CEOs firmly state that the glass ceiling no longer exists.5 Conservative economists go further: they maintain that in free markets corporations could not survive if they discriminated against women.6 The Harvard Business School Press publishes Through The Labyrinth, by two women’s rights scholars, which asserts that the glass ceiling concept no longer has validity.7
