n. Business practices and prejudices that create an unseen and unofficial barrier to personal advancement for gay employees.
2014
Chris writes:
I am an out gay man in my late 20s. I was lucky to have liberal and accepting parents that pushed me to excel in school and attend university. I consider myself a successfully "launched" millennial and I've made it my mission to break the rainbow ceiling wherever I work.
I am an out gay man in my late 20s. I was lucky to have liberal and accepting parents that pushed me to excel in school and attend university. I consider myself a successfully "launched" millennial and I've made it my mission to break the rainbow ceiling wherever I work.
2013
Indeed, so LGBT people face their own glass ceiling, limiting how far they can rise in a given company or career?
Those in the community see it. They even have a name for it: They call it the "pink ceiling" or the "rainbow ceiling."
Those in the community see it. They even have a name for it: They call it the "pink ceiling" or the "rainbow ceiling."
2002 (earliest)
Workers Out vice-president Mark Dolahenty said cases of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender workers were not uncommon.
"You hear stories that people are being ridiculed, which is perhaps the easiest to cope with," he told AAP.
"But you hear stories of people being spat on, discriminated against - not just in an open way, but we hear dreadful stories of people whose careers are simply in a dead end.
There's the glass ceiling for women, I suppose we have the pink or rainbow ceiling here."
"You hear stories that people are being ridiculed, which is perhaps the easiest to cope with," he told AAP.
"But you hear stories of people being spat on, discriminated against - not just in an open way, but we hear dreadful stories of people whose careers are simply in a dead end.
There's the glass ceiling for women, I suppose we have the pink or rainbow ceiling here."
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.