what can you do to keep women out of powerful positions in business? You can set them up to fail—or, to be more accurate, you set them up to fall. It’s called the glass cliff, and it’s a phrase that was first coined in 2005 by University of Exeter researchers Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam. Their research was inspired by an article in the Times (of London, not New York) that suggested women leaders have a negative impact on stock performance.
