With Carly Fiorina stepping down as the head of HP, women manage a smaller percentage of the nation's biggest companies. While the glass ceiling seems to be firmly in place, other power positions, like chief financial officer seem more accessible to women, especially those with a finance MBA.
Today's top-ranked business schools are much more diverse than they once where. No longer the domain of privileged white men, a finance MBA is popular among people from a number of races and religions. Still, women are not applying to business schools, such as a finance MBA program, as often as they are to law or medicine programs. In fact, while medicine and law schools have pushed their ratios of men to women to almost half, the percentage of women entering business schools is below 30%.
The news isn't all bad. According to a new survey by Catalyst, a nonprofit that focuses on women in business, found that female MBA holders, such as a finance MBA, felt their business school experience was positive. The same study found some 95% of women and men alike expressed satisfaction with their degree program.
This is especially good news for women interested in a business degree. Pretty soon women pursuing a finance MBA will find that business schools might be pursuing them.
# posted by Edward Castro @ 7:48 PM
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