TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

58008@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

ikt@aussie.zone · 2 days ago

Couldn’t Biden have argued the same as his was during Covid and he was trying to clean up after Fuckface?

Seems like Chrimas1 was spot on 8 years ago:

Criticism section

This whole theory seems to be an agglomeration of anectodal and/or cherry-picked evidence. Definitely needs a criticism section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrimas1 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Glass_cliff#Criticism_section

TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

Glass cliff - Wikipedia