UoT’s MBA Assignment Retracted After ‘Sexism’ Complaints

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Rotman School of Management has confessed that one of the assignments handed over to its MBA students, with the approval of the course’s professor, has been criticized as sexist and taken back. The assignment on first-year MBA course on capital markets allegedly portrayed the story of a clueless female business student seemingly out of a 1950s Archie comic.

Addressing the media, Rotman’s spokesman, Ken McGuffin, confirmed that the assignment was written by a teaching assistant but approved by Professor Kent Womack. The assignment included story of a female business student named “Elle Forest” who is offered a job with her “favourite company of all time,” jeweller Tiffany & Co., but fails to decide on what compensation package to take. She brings up the issue to her “Yale-educated boyfriend, Chip,” who gives her advice and Elle apparently can barely handle with her eyes open. She tells Chip, “Oh, right. Sorry. I was dreaming of that pair of Louboutins,” referring to the designer shoes. Furthermore, the assignment says that she later falls asleep “dreaming of those little blue boxes and beautiful shoes.”

A student speaking anonymously stated that Womack apologized for the assignment in class but also warned students about speaking to the media. He alleged said that “the (topic) Wednesday was: this is offensive; this isn’t cool. On Thursday the question was: how does this affect the Rotman brand?”

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