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President Joe Biden gestures toward first lady Jill Biden as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., watch. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS

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Lesley Stahl is an Emmy-winning journalist who currently reports for the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” During her long career, she has served as a White House correspondent and anchor of CBS’ “Face the Nation.” But she didn't have an…

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Nancy Pelosi on her own glass ceiling and Hillary Clinton’s

Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali., broke her own glass ceiling when she was elected the first Speaker of the House. Today, she stands with Hillary Clinton as she campaigns to become the first woman commander-in-chief. Pelosi speaks with Gwen…

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Ellen Pao leaves San Francisco Superior Court Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break in San Francisco, California March 25, 2015. Pao, the interim CEO of Reddit, is suing her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byerr, a venture capital firm, for $16 million in a landmark case detailing the alleged sexual bias against women in Silicon Valley. REUTERS/Stephen Lam - RTR4UVEY
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The glass cliff is a phenomenon in which women are more likely to be put into leadership roles under risky and precarious circumstances.

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Ellen Pao may have lost a Silicon Valley gender discrimination suit on all four accounts, but she isn’t backing down on a mission to increase gender equality in the tech world.

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Don’t count on corporate gender quotas to break the glass ceiling

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Could increasing the percentage of women on corporate boards have a trickle-down effect on the workforce? That's not the case when quotas, and later sanctions, are used to force businesses to invite more women to the boardroom.

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