Phrase guide
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noun
A social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, idiomatic
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noun
A social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for women.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: East Asia
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History
Modeled on glass ceiling, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.
