{"id":28574,"date":"2015-05-19T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=28574"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T20:52:28","slug":"business-school-gender-balance-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/business-school-gender-balance-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Business School Gender Balance Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UC Berkeley Haas takes the lead with a 43% female student body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Women now make up 60% of university graduates, but most business schools have lagged behind when it comes to gender balance\u2014impacting not just women\u2019s experience of b-school, but the composition of the workforce afterward. A new report<\/a> from gender consulting firm 20-first looks at the numbers of women MBA students and faculty at top programs<\/a>, and finds that while there has been some improvement in the last few years, we still have a ways to go before achieving gender balance.<\/p>\n

Lesley Symons, one of the authors of the report, points out that this \u201cbalance\u201d is not merely an issue of numbers\u2014currently, the curriculum at most b-schools is defined and driven by male faculty, male-dominated case studies, etc. She suggests that a deeper issue of cultural change is at stake, in order to make business education \u201cgender bilingual\u201d and effectively train the next generation of business leaders.<\/p>\n

The report found that gender balance among students at top programs is improving (with several top US programs near or over 40% representation for women), while faculty numbers are slower to budge.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the report\u2019s findings regarding female MBA students and faculty:<\/p>\n

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