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As the number of women considering graduate business school grows, a deeper analysis of pipeline trends reveals some surprising drivers in the gains women are making in graduate business school.
The Graduate Management Admission Council reported that the number of GMAT tests taken by women surpassed 100,000 for the first time ever last year. The 104,880 exams taken by women in the testing year ending June 30, 2009, represented 39.5 percent of all exams taken, a figure that has changed only one percentage point in 10 years.
Yet behind the slight global increase are some major shifts by region, age, and career intent, notes Lamia Walker, GMAC regional director for Europe, Middle East and Asia. “When we break down gender distribution by regional citizenship, we find a wide range – from 56.1 percent of exams in Eastern Europe to just 24.6 percent in Central Asia,” she says.
Walker, the former director of the Centre for Women in Business at London Business School, is among the presenters at a GMAC webinar titled Women in the Business School Pipeline, to be held March 25 in recognition of International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month in the United States.
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