Carly’s Reviews > Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America > Status Update

The glass cliff is a phrase to describe how women (and members of minority groups) are often set up to fail. "Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains" (p. 311).