double bind

This creates a vicious double bind for average employees.

The group dynamic is what interests Young most because what lies beneath is an inherent "double bind".

The straightforward Fed logic of lowering borrowing costs when the economy is struggling and raising them to counter rapid inflation is put in a double bind by the hypothetical, and Powell admitted as much.

Harris, like other Black women, experiences the double bind of having to navigate racism and sexism.

This government determining standards that contradict what children learn at home places them in a double bind.