Remembering Marilyn Loden, who gave a name to the glass ceiling
When Loden first uttered the phrase "the glass ceiling" in the 1970s, she hoped the invisible barrier for women that it described would soon become a thing of the past. She died last month at age 76.
When Marilyn Loden first uttered the phrase "the glass ceiling" in the 1970s, and even as it became an increasingly permanent fixture of the lexicon, she hoped the invisible barrier it described would soon become a thing of the past.
Instead, it outlived her. Loden — who died in August at age 76 after a battle with cancer in — was saddened to know that would be the case, according to a recent obituary in the Napa Valley Register.
"I thought I would be finished with this by the end of my lifetime, but I won't be," Loden told in 2018. "I'm hoping if it outlives me, it will [become] an antiquated phrase. People will say, 'There was a time when there was a glass ceiling.'
