Claire King - Overlooked for Promotion?

A mid-career engineer finds her path to promotion to partner at the small, private company where she has worked for 10 years blocked by the existing partners, all of whom are male.

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

• Resiliency         
• Building your professional support network
• Communicating your impacts
• Managing conflict

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

• Understand sexism and so-called benevolent sexism as concepts;
• Recognize workplace gender biases related to the care of dependent children;
• Formulate a strategic plan for action using a decision tree model;
• Script a conversation with a key stakeholder that explains the situation and proposes a solution.

• Becoming a change agent in your organization (Understanding Weed-out culture, Old-Boys Networks and Cloning)
• Building your professional support network for career resilience
• Communicating your impacts
• Managing conflict - Respectful confrontations
• Meritocratic ideologies
• Organizing with other women across difference (in race, sexuality, class, ability status)