Canada: Women-only MBA fair helps the curious set a course

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2014-09-08 19:13

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sponsored by Forté Foundation, a U.S.-based consortium of companies and business schools that encourages women to earn a business degree, the one-day event offers advice, networking and access to 36 MBA schools from Canada, Europe and the United States.
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Ms. Fernandez attended the event last year to explore her interest in an MBA. This year, with her score in hand from the Graduate Management Admission Test, she plans to meet some of the schools on her shortlist.

“That’s the beauty of going to events like Forté,” says Ms. Fernandez, a process transformation manager at Bank of Montreal. “It gives you [access to] local schools and everyone else around [the world].”
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Female participation in business schools continues to rise – though women still make up just 30 to 40 per cent of classes – with some business schools aiming for gender parity. In addition to annual fairs like those in Toronto, London and a dozen cities in the United States, Forté offers coaching and other support to help women assess their MBA ambitions.'

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So "only" 30-40% of the enrollees in MBA programs are female and everyone MUST rush to clear up the gap?!

Wonder how many men are pursuing lucrative RN and PT degrees and if there'll be a rush for parity there, too.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-09-11 05:23

Only 30-40% of college degree earners in general are men. . .

Yet, that's not a problem. It's only a problem when more men than women are succeeding at something.

Women get to have the majority of college degrees in general, but men don't get to have the majority in any fields, even the ones where there's a clear lack of female interest.

This is why gender ideologues really have no business trying to do social experiments.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sat, 2014-09-13 09:14