The aim of the Case for Women competition is to promote the development of high-quality teaching case material that positively represents the challenges and triumphs of real women in leadership positions.
The Case for Women competition was developed to address significant gender gaps in business school teaching case literature. A 13-year-long study by Lesley Symons of The Case for Women found that only 11% of award-winning case papers feature a female protagonist, and only 4% of case studies researched met all three rules of The Symons Test; a simple method of measuring female representation in case papers.
The Symons Test is composed of three questions:
- Does it have a woman in it?
- Is she the protagonist?
- Does she speak to another woman about the business?
Using this approach, the Case for Women competition aims to ensure that women from all backgrounds and disciplines can be made visible in case literature and classrooms throughout the world.
Cases submitted to the competition should:
- Have a female protagonist whose characteristics as a leader should be described in a positive way.
- Feature the female protagonist speaking to another woman about the business.
- Have a balance of genders across the characters in the case. This does not need to be precise although an approximate range of between 60:40 either way is considered balanced.
- Be based on a real decision-making situation in a real company, where the focus of the dilemma (the managerial decision the protagonist needs to make) contributes to students’ understanding of management decision-making.
- Should include sufficient information and data so that students can have meaningful discussion of a managerial dilemma.
- Not have been published before in its current or substantially similar form or be under consideration for publication in any ISSN/ISBN-registered publication or with any other case centre.
Please note we cannot accept academic (research) cases, submissions must be teaching cases and be prepared to the standard The CASE Journal (TCJ) author guidelines, available on the TCJ website.
All submissions will be entered into the peer-review process, and selected cases will be published in the Scopus-ranked TCJ collection.
A total award prize fund of $9,500 is available. Prizes are awarded to the winning case ($5,000) and two runners-up ($3,000 and $1,500 for second and third place)*
*Please note that though we are an international publisher, we must comply with all current economic sanctions within the United Kingdom.
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