The Associate follows a talented female financial analyst who, blocked by sexism on Wall Street, creates a fictitious white male partner to front her own firm. The ruse succeeds commercially but generates ethical and personal complications as she struggles to maintain the deception.

Use in class

This film fits business ethics, gender and organisational behaviour topics. It offers material for discussing discrimination, glass ceilings, identity at work and the ethics of deception in pursuit of fairness, as well as client perceptions of status and credibility.

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