When Sussan Ley made history as the first woman to take the reins of Australia's Liberal Party, she insisted this was a pivotal moment for the party – or what was left of it anyway. She had broken through the glass ceiling: an invisible, patriarchal barrier which keeps women from positions of power. But to many, Ley's glass ceiling looked an awful lot like a "glass cliff", and it felt like it was only a matter of time before she lost her grip and slipped off it. The glass cliff describes a