"The glass ceiling" is one of the major barriers to female managers' advancement, resulting from the reluctance of men to relate to them as organizational equals (due in large part to sex stereotyping). A pedagogical foundation is laid for breaking this barrier: an integrated set of exercises that vividly demonstrate how women's opportunities—and effective management in general—are restricted not only by the stereotyping of women but by the gender stereotypes men have about themselves and about management. The implicitly "masculine" values of the conventional managerial paradigm are exposed as dysfunctional, sexist attitudes are identified and confronted, and strategies for enhancing egalitarian male-female relationships are shared.
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