"lavender ceiling" meaning in English

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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "lavender ceiling (plural lavender ceilings)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 February 27, Mary Emily O'Hara, “'Moonlight' Makes Oscars History as 1st LGBTQ Best Picture Winner”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30",
          "text": "The \"lavender ceiling\" has been shattered — after nearly a century in place. On Sunday at around midnight, \"Moonlight\" became the first LGBTQ film ever to take the Best Picture prize at the 89th annual Academy Awards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 8, Mary Wang, “Two Newly Elected Transgender Women Just Smashed the \"Lavender Ceiling,\" and Here's Why That Matters”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-06",
          "text": "During a time when the Trump administration seems to be working hard to strengthen the lavender ceiling that prohibits the LGBTQ community from functioning equally in American society—whether by claiming that LGBTQ employees can be fired from their workplace for their sexual orientation or by attempting to ban transgender people from serving in the military—Jenkins's and Roem's victories strike a hopeful note for the country at large.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "An unwritten barrier preventing the advancement of LGBT people in society."
      ],
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          "barrier",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lavender, ceiling."
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          "lavender",
          "lavender#English"
        ],
        [
          "ceiling",
          "ceiling#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lavender ceiling"
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      "form": "lavender ceilings",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2017 February 27, Mary Emily O'Hara, “'Moonlight' Makes Oscars History as 1st LGBTQ Best Picture Winner”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30",
          "text": "The \"lavender ceiling\" has been shattered — after nearly a century in place. On Sunday at around midnight, \"Moonlight\" became the first LGBTQ film ever to take the Best Picture prize at the 89th annual Academy Awards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 8, Mary Wang, “Two Newly Elected Transgender Women Just Smashed the \"Lavender Ceiling,\" and Here's Why That Matters”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-06",
          "text": "During a time when the Trump administration seems to be working hard to strengthen the lavender ceiling that prohibits the LGBTQ community from functioning equally in American society—whether by claiming that LGBTQ employees can be fired from their workplace for their sexual orientation or by attempting to ban transgender people from serving in the military—Jenkins's and Roem's victories strike a hopeful note for the country at large.",
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        "An unwritten barrier preventing the advancement of LGBT people in society."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lavender, ceiling."
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          "ceiling",
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  "word": "lavender ceiling"
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