Anitta - Based on My Own Merit

Five female friends with diverse backgrounds - three engineering students, and two practicing electrical engineers - discuss intersectional challenges arising from biases they currently face in school and the workplace.

The case can be used to help develop career skills that may be useful to achieving long-term success, such as:

• Becoming a change agent in your organization
• Forming alliances with other women
• Overcoming Stereotype threat / Impostor Syndrome

Upon completion of this case, students will be able to:

• Recognize microagressions, meritocratic ideologies and colorblind systems of beliefs related to navigating STEM workplaces and educational settings as an underrepresented group member.
• Identify strategies for building your professional support network for career advancement.
• Identify strategies for collaboration with other women in STEM.

• Becoming a change agent in your organization (Understanding Weed-out culture, Old-Boys Networks and Cloning)
• Intersection of gender and race (diversity)
• Meritocratic ideologies
• Workplace harassment and hostile work environments (understanding microaggressions)