Harvard Business School Launches New Effort To Attract Women

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'It’s been more than 50 years since Harvard Business School started admitting women, yet the elite institution is still figuring out how to best attract and support them. Its latest effort: a recruiting program targeting women's colleges -- places that are not traditional feeding grounds for the male-majority business school.
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Women make up 41 percent of Harvard Business School's class of 2016 -- the most the school has ever had. In 1985, women made up only one-quarter of the graduating class. Harvard is not alone when it comes to struggling with a gender gap. At Wharton, the class of 2016 is 40 percent women; at Stanford Business school, it’s 42 percent. No top business school has gotten to 50 percent yet.
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For years, female students at Harvard Business School lagged behind men. There was a little-talked-about gender gap when it came to grades, and women received fewer academic honors than men. Women privately lamented the school’s “frat house” vibe, according to reports. Blatant sexual harassment wasn’t limited to students. Female professors were also subject to hassling from male students, according to a 2013 report in The New York Times. The attrition rate for female professors was high, and women graduates ranked behind their male peers in pay, the Times reported. Even years later, female graduates from Harvard Business School report less satisfaction with their career trajectory, a new study from 2014 found.'