bamboo ceiling

Etymology
Modeled on, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.

Noun

 * 1) Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.
 * 2) In East Asia, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for women.
 * 3) * 1995, Mahnaz Sarachi, "Women: Being and Becoming" in The Emergence of Women Into the 21st Century (P. Munhall and V. Fitzsimons, eds.), ISBN 9780061983528, p. 9 (Google preview):
 * Nonetheless, women are definitely breaking through what has variously been called the glass ceiling, the bamboo ceiling, or the old boy's network.
 * 1) In East Asia, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for women.
 * 2) * 1995, Mahnaz Sarachi, "Women: Being and Becoming" in The Emergence of Women Into the 21st Century (P. Munhall and V. Fitzsimons, eds.), ISBN 9780061983528, p. 9 (Google preview):
 * Nonetheless, women are definitely breaking through what has variously been called the glass ceiling, the bamboo ceiling, or the old boy's network.