Four women managers talk about some of their experiences at NexTech, focusing on their working relationships, past and present, with various male managers. This is a supplement to NexTech Inc. (A), product 9B04C041.

A manager must decide among seven candidates to recommend for a management promotion. The company has developed a new focus on equal opportunity for its female employees, so the manager is struggling with the decision of which to choose from five male and two female candidates, particularly in light of some company statistics that indicated women were not proportionally represented in management.