Titanium Office Products has had a record breaking year in terms of sales and revenue. It decides to reward its top sales representatives. Fourteen of the top reps are men and 7 are women. Titanium gives each of the reps an overnight stay at a top luxury hotel. In addition, the company pays for each of the men to play a round of golf at the hotel and tells the men that they can each invite one client as a guest for golf and lunch. The women are each given a full day beauty treatment at the hotel's spa but no round of golf. The women complain that Titanium's rewards are discriminatory.

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The rewards are discriminatory because they are based on gender stereotypes and affect the women's employment. The company assumed that men like golf and women prefer beauty treatments, which is a stereotype. Furthermore, the rewards for the men included the possibility of building business relationships with clients, while the rewards for the women did not provide any such opportunity. This can have a negative impact on the women's employment and career progression.

Titanium Office Products Has Had a Record Breaking Year in Terms