More Women Head to School for M.B.A.s

The more highly qualified women obtaining MBA's, the less that formerly male-dominated businesses can use the "we can't find enough qualified women" excuse to shirk much needed gender power-sharing responsibilities.

There are MORE women than men obtaining undergraduate degrees in America, and yet I have seen men with only an undergraduate education rising to senior executive level positions over others with much more work experience (I know, because I asked someone a simple question that anyone in that field would know, had they had any prior experience, and I was told that individual was still learning the job. Huh? Still learning something basic? They were basically hand-picked by other men for the job and allowed to be trained from less experience, whereas a woman would only be mentored upwards if she were lucky enough to work for a female upper exec!).

Sponsorship and mentoring of women is NOT occurring at high enough rates in the United States, but yet men have absolutely no problem moving into higher roles, even with less experience. It's such blatant discrimination, but because there's no female CEO to answer to, it happens, and no one can do anything about it.

Get more women into the top levels already. It is just unacceptable that more than half the degrees go to women, and yet you can look around your own workplace and see wall-to-wall men in senior level positions (not that there shouldn't be any men, there, but wall-to-wall men only???? come on).

Also, organizations that don't put enough women in high level positions suffer when they have that one token female in place who is sub-par in performance. Now, they're stuck with the under-performing and semi-competent women simply because that's all they have left, just the few token cases of so-called gender diversity.

MORE women in an organization at higher levels means MORE women getting sponsored and mentored upwards. Less women means the few that manage to get in and upwards may slack off in terms of performance, because they know they're one of the few, so they're not going anywhere (and the organization suffers, as a result). Or, worse, jealousy over those with better academic credentials causes them to attempt to prevent anyone else from rising, despite high performance.

The higher women aim, academically, the better, because it will result in more talent within organizations and less protective territoriality.

I worked somewhere knowing from the INTERVIEW that the female doing the hiring was NOT going to be any kind of mentor. Why? I was told in my interview that had I majored in something else, I could maybe move up and become this or that (I majored in political science; you can work anywhere with that major, for Pete's sake, and this person's next boss turned out to have also majored in poli-sci as well, thus totally negating her lies in the interview).

As for Kellogg, don't they now have a female dean? I do believe so! FANTASTIC!!

Fantastic! of IL 9:40PM October 09, 2011