Big and encouraging news from both Wharton and Harvard on the percentage of women in their incoming MBA classes this fall:

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/13/wharton-admits-record-number-of-women/

What was it like to be a woman at B-school in the 1970s? Read Ruth Owade’s My Story, which tackles sexism at work, surviving two years at the then (and technically, still!) male-dominated Harvard Business School, and life as a successful female…[Read more]

WHY WOMEN ARE FLEEING WALL STREET. ”Women seemed to care a lot about the status, the integrity and the mission of their company, and when that became tarnished, that was a real dealbreaker for women,” says Sylvia Ann Hewett, president of the Center for Work-Life Policy. Interesting post over at The Wall Street Journal: http://bit.ly/bEYbAJ

Interestingly, the new study out today on MBA application trends from the Graduate Management Admission Council reports that 68% of U.S. business schools conducted special outreach programs to target women and increase their representation in their MBA programs. Another interesting finding: The 2010 applicant pools for flexible and part-time MBA…[Read more]

We know that most full-time MBA programs are a ways off from gender balance (part-time, and early-career MBA programs fare much better on this front). I’ve been immersed in the space since 1999, first as a reporter at BusinessWeek, later on at London Business School in a variety of roles. I’ve been close enough to see the many perks that a…[Read more]