French Glass Ceiling
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French Glass Ceiling
According to wikipedia, on average our French brothers and sisters consume 13.66 liters of pure ethyl alcohol per year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... onsumption
This equals 13,660 grams of pure alcohol
http://www.convertunits.com/from/grams/to/liter
To make it simple let's assume they only drink wine. A 100 ml glass of wine contains approximately 10 grams of pure alcohol.
http://www.alac.org.nz/sites/default/fi ... 0Chart.pdf
which comes from
http://www.alac.org.nz/alcohol-you/what ... ard-drinks
A 5 oz glass of wine equals 148 (rounded) milliliters.
http://www.worldwidemetric.com/measurements.html
and contains 14.8 grams of pure alcohol (148 ml/100 ml * 10).
Thus, they drink every year 922 glasses or wine [13,660/14.8].
This comes to 2.5 daily five oz glasses of wine.
Very close to NOS glass ceiling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... onsumption
This equals 13,660 grams of pure alcohol
http://www.convertunits.com/from/grams/to/liter
To make it simple let's assume they only drink wine. A 100 ml glass of wine contains approximately 10 grams of pure alcohol.
http://www.alac.org.nz/sites/default/fi ... 0Chart.pdf
which comes from
http://www.alac.org.nz/alcohol-you/what ... ard-drinks
A 5 oz glass of wine equals 148 (rounded) milliliters.
http://www.worldwidemetric.com/measurements.html
and contains 14.8 grams of pure alcohol (148 ml/100 ml * 10).
Thus, they drink every year 922 glasses or wine [13,660/14.8].
This comes to 2.5 daily five oz glasses of wine.
Very close to NOS glass ceiling.
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That would be "le plafond de verres"Blithe Morning wrote:Vive le cieling verre
I (personally) drink much less than that, but I think that's about right. Assuming that most average people don't drink during lunchtime when they're working, one glass of pastis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastis) and one to two glasses of wine per day looks like a believable average.
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You typed "cieling" instead of "ceiling", I guess. I don't have access to Google Translate where I am, but I guess if you ask it for "glass ceiling", it will answer "plafond de verre" (without s), which (pun requires) is a commonly used idiom for designating the difficulty that women have to access high positions in management. (I guess it exists in english also) The 's' I added is to translate 'glass' as countable (many glasses) instead of 'glass' as a matter. (made with much glass)Blithe Morning wrote:So much for Google Translate.TUK wrote:
That would be "le plafond de verres"
Just my 2 cents