Date:  Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:33:02 -0500
From:  Jesse T Sheidlower <jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM>
Subject: Re: RE>Glass Ceiling

>
> Thomas Goetz in this week's Village Voice has a bit at the end of his "Press Clips" column
speculating on the term "glass ceiling."
>
> "In this week's report on women's earnings, Barron's Gene Epstein traces the term 'glass ceiling'
to a March 1986 coinage in it sister publication, The Wall Street Journal. But a random walk
down Nexis shows U.P.I. used it in May 1985 and quoted the term in March 1984--two full years
before the Journal."
>
> I somehow think this term is much older. Barry? Anyone?

I don't think it's much older. MW10 cites 1986 for its first example,
and OEDAS III has one from 1984; our evidence doesn't start to get
heavy until 1988 or so. It could be somewhat older, but it doesn't
seem like it's that old.

Jesse Sheidlower
Random House Reference
<jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com>