Course Overview
This online leadership and management course for women is a partner course that provides general awareness training on how representation, stereotypes, and workplace structures shape experience and opportunity. It looks across multiple domains, including sports, politics, education, STEM fields, pink-collar roles, and management, and it connects representation patterns to how organizations evaluate, reward, and promote.
This is a partner course offered alongside our instructor-led programs. It provides a self-paced option for learners who want a focused online course that supports stronger shared understanding, whether as individual development or as preparation for team discussions and organizational initiatives.
The course reviews common challenges working women face and examines strategies for addressing unfair treatment at both the personal and organizational level. It also includes a brief review of milestones in the history of women in the workplace and closes by connecting stronger representation to business benefits, including leadership representation.
Who This Helps
This course is a strong fit for professionals who want a clearer, more accurate understanding of gender-related dynamics at work and how those dynamics can influence hiring, promotion, leadership opportunity, and day-to-day treatment. It is also useful for managers and HR partners who want a shared baseline for discussions about workplace fairness and representation.
What Learners Will Do Better
- Recognize the most common workplace challenges women face and how those challenges show up in everyday situations.
- Identify how gender stereotypes shape expectations and influence evaluation and treatment at work.
- Understand where women tend to be underrepresented or overrepresented and the forces that contribute to those patterns.
- Summarize major advances toward reducing workplace gender discrimination and what those shifts changed.
- Choose practical responses to unfair treatment at both the personal and organizational level.
- Explain how stronger representation, especially in leadership, can benefit businesses.
How Teams Get Value From It
Teams use this course to build shared language for discussing representation, bias, and fair treatment without guessing or talking past one another. Common uses include assigning the course as pre-work before manager training, using it ahead of HR or DEI discussions, and pairing it with a short facilitated conversation about what the organization will reinforce, measure, and expect.
Time, Access, and Credits
Estimated learning time is approximately 3 hours. Access runs 90 days. The course carries 0.3 IACET CEUs and 3 credits each from HRCI, SHRM, and ATD. It also includes 3 PMI PDUs, broken out as 1.25 Power Skills and 1.75 Business Acumen.
Volume Pricing and Coordinated Enrollment
If purchasing seats for a group, contact us about volume pricing and coordinated enrollment.