Update CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md

Co-authored-by: Michael Beemer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Todd Baert <[email protected]>

Author: toddbaert

CONTRIBUTOR_LADDER.md

@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Process of becoming a maintainer:
 
 ## Global Maintainer
 
-Global Maintainers are a technical authority for the project, with **broad permissions** across all repositories.
+Global Maintainers have  **broad access** across all repositories to facilitate project-wide maintainership.
 Unlike the technical committee, global maintainers do not set policy, but otherwise have the same permissions.
 They oversee the health of the entire project and help facilitate cross-language and cross-repository collaboration.
 Frequently, members are granted this permission after reaching `maintainer` in numerous repositories.