A review by thebookishmindset
The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams

hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

What happens to women once they’ve broken through the glass ceiling at work? They are faced with The Glass Cliff. 

If you’ve read Milennial Black by Williams, you’ll already know that her writing style and capacity for examining women in the workplace is second to none; she’s made  a thoroughly researched book easy to absorb and understand. The Glass Cliff is no different. 

Using research from across the globe and including as many intersections as possible (when included in the research which isn’t as often as we’d like), Williams explains what the glass cliff is, how it came about and how we overcome it. 

Williams emulates what it feels like to be a woman in a majority male workforce perfectly - the frequent micro agressions, the emotional burden of accepting these and continuing anyway, it’s perfect. She says “Sometimes microaggressions make us feel, implicitly, that we don't belong in a space”. 

She also hits the nail on the head when she suggests flexibility is perhaps more important to women as the chance to work from home means we don’t have to deal with the aforementioned microagressions. Working from home can mean “finding relief in not having to wear a mask of 'professionalism' that was made in someone else's image”. This rings so true for me, I often having to put on a mask, a persona, a facade at work. 

Also, swipe for an example of Williams great footnotes 🚀

Honestly, my neck is sore from nodding along to this book. I feel 100% seen.