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by SeoJin Ahn ![]() The glass cliff is when women are placed in leadership roles just before a large crisis or a great chance of failure. The term was created by Dr. Michelle Ryan and Professor Alex Haslam from the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. The research carried out by these scholars showed that women
were more likely to be placed in roles where there are more risks that can lead to largescale failures. “We found that when a company is doing well, people prefer leaders with stereotypically male strengths, but when a company is in crisis, they think stereotypically female skills are needed to turn things around.” However, this usually leads to women leaders being portrayed as the destructors of global companies and nations. Some victims of the socalled “glass cliff” are Jill Abramson at the New York Times and Sallie Krawcheck, former head of Merrill Lynch. Katie Couric became an anchor at CBS when ratings were in third place and dropping, and when ABC World News lost half its audience, Diane Sawyer was hired to gain back ratings. Recently, Theresa May became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as soon as they left the European Union. At this fragile point in both political and economic history, a woman was appointed, which has not been done since Margaret Thatcher was first elected in 1979. She too could become a victim of the glass cliff.
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