Women and MBA Degrees, Part II

This blog post is a continuation of my look at women and MBA degrees.  Part I looked at women who are currently in graduate school pursuing an MBA degree.  You can read the previous post here. Did you know that women account for only about a third of graduate business students in the United States?  [...]

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Women and MBA Degrees

As a woman with an MBA degree and someone who wants to see more women in the C-suite, I read with interest an article entitled Defining Workplace Dreams for Women MBAs in the September 28, 2009 issue of Forbes magazine.  The article referenced a study by Universum, a research firm focused on employer branding.  Universum [...]

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No More Glass Ceiling

The May 2008 issue of the Leading Effectively newsletter from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) deals with women in leadership. Here’s an interesting tidbit, the term ‘glass ceiling’ was coined by journalists Carol Hymowitz and Timothy Schellhardt in 1986. A lot has changed in 22 years, but women still lag far behind men in [...]

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