The typical full-time woman worker still makes only 77 cents for every dollar paid to the typical man, and women still face a glass ceiling in their efforts to reach the highest positions in their fields.
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On the face of it Glass heralds the beginnings of wearable computing.
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But if you pressed your face to the glass, as Kendall was doing, you could see the biscuit-colored beach running down to Navy Pier, where they were just now lighting the Ferris wheel.
She pressed her pallid and wild-eyed face up to the glass so that her nose and lips flattened and distorted.
Combine all that with an edge-to-edge sheet of Gorilla Glass on the face and you've got a rather solid and premium-feeling device.
Once you've come down from the initial shock, HTC's subtle flairs begin to peek out, like the solid colored speaker grill that serves to break the front face's expanse of glass with a shock of vibrancy.
As more women face the challenge, the proverbial glass ceiling will keep cracking and hopefully, one day it will break apart.
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Mr Fisher, 21, had been watching an England football match with friends at a Mansfield pub in June when a glass was launched into his face.
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And we, as consumers, face these sheer walls, smooth as glass, edifices of obsidian, crystal, and silver that reach up to the sky, blocking all but a tiny patch of light.
What a shame that aspiring young women who already face ample challenges of discrimination, stereotyping and glass ceilings still have to contend with these Neanderthal views.
The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.
Among the rooms that feel the most personal are the bedroom and sitting room where you can get a sense of what he saw when he woke up, from his snail clock on the glass coffee table to the mirror positioned so the rising sun hit his face.
Similarly, Google Glass fails to acknowledge that walking around with a camera mounted on the side of your face at all times makes you look dorky.
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