Nancy Pelosi Marble Ceiling

Discriminatory barrier keeping a certain class of people out of an upper echelon of american government.

Nancy pelosi marble ceiling.

Coined by incoming speaker of the house nancy pelosi. So i always thought that that would be something that the public would be much more ready for than the members of congress. Or whatever that is this is a marble ceiling it s not a glass ceiling. Nancy pelosi spoke about sen.

That woman is rep. But it s another dimension of nancy pelosi that helps explain why she s closing in on the highest rank ever attained by a woman in the us congress. This is a marble ceiling. Distinguished from a glass ceiling because not only is this class prevented from rising to the next level they cannot even see what is going on up there.

Let me know how i can. Pelosi broke the marble ceiling a decade ago as the first female speaker of the house. She s 66 years old and has represented san francisco in california s eighth congressional district for almost 20 years. And she was central to the legislative achievements of barack obama s presidency including his signature.

For our daughters and our granddaughters now the sky is the limit brendan. Caroline brehman cq roll call. Here is the text of her remarks as prepared for. Pelosi shatters a marble ceiling.

House speaker nancy pelosi said thursday at the weekly democratic press conference that she is surprised a woman got her job before one was elected president. Elizabeth warren s departure from the democratic presidential primary during her weekly briefing on. I ve broken the marble ceiling this. Well we won.

Congress is very male oriented society in congress you have to break the marble ceiling forget glass the marble ceiling of a very male oriented society where they had a pecking order and they thought that would be the way it always was and they would always be in charge. When nancy pelosi was sworn in as the first female speaker of the house she said we have broken the marble ceiling.