At first, individuals affected by the glass-ceiling concept appear to have issues that require unique solutions.
The bottom line is, we are all alike. Our problems are simple and the solutions are complex. Solutions that are similar for most individuals. We all share a common solution utilizing teamwork, communication, and networking.
As a glass-ceiling associate, are you searching for ways to break the stereotypes that our society has constructed? In your endless battles for equality, you know the problem, but you may have had a hard time finding a solution. These solutions listed below may be combined together to lead us into a path beyond the glass ceiling and into a successful career.

No matter who you are these are words of advice that will help you break your glass ceilings:

• Dig deep into your chosen area of expertise in the first five years of your career
• Build a track record in a given functional area and establish your credibility
• Develop leadership skills inside the company
• Demonstrate effective people management skills
• Increase the scope of your people management skills, the size of your team and the complexity of the task for which you are responsible
• Consciously explore other functions
• Seeking out difficult or highly visible job assignments
• Gravitate toward the visible, difficult, strategic tasks
• Deliver performances with exceptional results
• Start focusing energy
• Start taking risks
• Stop getting mired in the details
• Stop making things right or wrong
• Determine whether artificial barriers exist to prevent or slow the upward mobility of certain individuals
• Determine whether these barriers were discriminatory
• If barriers existed, find out whether the companies had initiated voluntary action to remove these obstacles
• Develop a set of guidelines for conducting future corporate compliance reviews
• Play the game, but stake out your territory and defend it
• Consistently exceeding performance expectations

Barriers that may impede your advancement include:

• Lack of mentoring
• Exclusion from informal networks of communication
• Failure of senior leadership to assume accountability for an individuals advancement; and stereotyping and preconceptions of an individual's roles and abilities

Below are solutions by other Firms and Authors:

Identifying the Barriers That Combine to Create The Glass Ceiling
What Can You Do?
Recommendations for business
DOL Findings and Report