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Female MBAs, Business School Professors Continue to Lag
Two new reports suggest that women in business and on business school faculties have a ways to go.
Pipeline’s Broken Promise, a global report on MBA graduates by the nonprofit organization Catalyst, shows that women continue to trail men in both job level and salary, starting from their first position after business school, and they do not catch up.
Part of a broad, ongoing study of thousands of MBA alumni around the world, the report finds that even after accounting for experience, industry, and region, women still start at lower employment levels than men, make on average US$4,600 less in their initial jobs, and continue to be outpaced by men in rank and salary growth.
In an analysis of data from the US National Study of Postsecondary Faculty for 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2004, Shani D. Carter of Rhode Island College found that over the 16-year period, male professors were far more likely to become full professors than female professors, and the difference was much more pronounced for business professors than for college faculty overall.
Differences in Career Paths of Female and Male Faculty in the US was presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
International Journal Focuses on Business Education
The EducationUSA journal Connections, a quarterly professional journal for EducationUSA advisers that the Institute of International Education produces on behalf of the State Department, focused its January 2010 issue on business education in the United States and featured two articles by GMAC staff.
The journal is sent to 500 Overseas EducationUSA Advising Centers, which provide information to almost 25 million prospective students annually. It is estimated that of the half-million international students who study in the US each year, up to 90 percent contact a Department of State-affiliated advising center.
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