A bad-tempered confrontation in the street suddenly turned violent when a man hurled a glass at a woman, hitting her in the face and leaving her "immediately covered in blood". Father-of-two ...

A man who told a woman to stop trying to kiss other females in a Leicester pub beer garden was badly injured after she hurled a glass at his forehead. As the man was bleeding from his head wound ...

Since then, that image of a glass ceiling sitting at the top of the corporate ladder has become a pervasive symbol of the obstacles that women face when reaching for the top rungs of leadership.