pink ceiling

短语

词形变化

pink ceilings 复数 pink ceilings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.

词源

pink (“relating to homosexuals as a group within society”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”), modeled after glass ceiling.

来源：wiktionary