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by gitremote 337 days ago
"The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and government) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

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Is this what happened at Reddit? I feel like they made some unpopular changes and used Ellen Pao as a patsy.