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Has the Glass Cliff Replaced the Glass Ceiling for Women Employed in the Public Sector?

Researchers at the University of Exeter claim that the big threat to women leaders in the private sector is the ‘glass cliff’ rather than the ‘glass ceiling’ (Haslam and Ryan, 2004). An extensive study of the performance of FTSE 100 companies before and after the appointment of a male or female board member has found that poor company performance may lead to the appointment of women to positions of leadership. The study concludes that having broken through a glass ceiling, women are more likely than men to find themselves on a glass cliff, meaning that their positions of leadership are risky or precarious. Such women are in danger of being held responsible for negative outcomes that were set in train before they assumed their roles. The researchers speculate that the phenomenon of the glass cliff may apply to women leaders in the public sector, although they only provide anecdotal evidence to support such a view. This speculation about the situation in the public sector does, however, raise a series of interesting questions: