Gender issues in the workplace are significant, difficult to address, and difficult to prepare students to address. They are thus ideal candidates for case development and pedagogy. Use of cases can both increase awareness of the issues and help students (and perhaps others, i.e., administrators) develop "coping strategies" for these matters when they arise. Further, gender issues arise in all cultures, albeit differently from culture to culture, and institutional settings, making them particularly appropriate for an international audience such as WACRA conferences offer.
The session will be conducted by a multi-national team with experience in gender issues, case writing and case teaching. Workshop participants will collaborate to identify the range of gender issues in the workplace and to specify the elements of a "good" gender case, to create a "checklist" for the development of rich gender cases that will foster student learning. The final portion of the workshop will focus on examining the preparation of such cases, how to find topics and issues for gender-related cases, and small groups will devise strategies to develop cases based on initial data provided by the workshop facilitators. Particular attention will be focused on cultural differences, the kinds of data sources available for the cases at hand, and any problems (and their solutions) in constructing the case with the information at hand. The workshop will be interactive and participants will have the beginnings of at least three cases at the end of the workshop. These cases can then (after the WACRA conference) further developed in cooperation with other workshop participants. Once these cases are completed, they can then be submitted for presentation at WACRA '02 in Heidelberg, Germany in 2002! Cases accepted and presented in Heidelberg are then eligible to be included in the collection of the European Case Clearing House (ECCH) (http://www.ecch.cranfield.ac.uk). For more information or to express your interest in participating contact the workshop chair: Dr. Ulla Johansson, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, email Ulla.Johansson@set.hh.se Dr. Anne Schroer-Lamont, Associate Dean and Director of Counseling, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A., email aslamont@wlu.edu or Dr. Elizabeth Hawthorne, WACRAŽ Executive Board Member, ICUS, PTE, LTD, Singapore, Singapore, email Elizabeth@icus.net or Dr. Jacqueline Delaat, McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership at Marietta College, email delaatj@marietta.edu