a situation in which you are only given a high position in an organization when there are difficult conditions which make you likely to fail

Women were often left teetering on a glass cliff after being handed impossible jobs. 女性在被分配到不可能完成的工作后，往往犹如在玻璃悬崖上徘徊。

This lack of support for women and minorities is central to the glass cliff phenomenon. 缺乏对妇女和少数民族的支持是玻璃悬崖现象的核心。