Harvard Business School's Gender Imbalance 'Damages Women Over Time'

The Harvard Crimson:

One female Harvard Business School professor remembers the year 2007 as the "mass exodus."

That year, nine of the 28 female junior faculty members at the time packed up and left. Three had come out of the tenure review process disappointed. The rest, facing what they felt to be slim chances, either chose not to apply for promotion or took leaves of absence to close out their time at Harvard.

None of the nine women--all but one of whom asked to remain anonymous to protect their relationship with the Business School--could quite pinpoint what had gone wrong or what hadn't felt right.

Read the whole story: The Harvard Crimson

Comments

[zeppelingirl89]

12:05 AM on 04/16/2010

Idk, if they want more women they need to recruit them in order to make business school more appealing. Truth is, whether they like it or not, most women aren't interested in it....
If they were interested in it, the field would be more even, like law or medicine. Law school and medical school probably have the most even sex ratios out of any college programs.

[MikeDu]

01:36 PM on 04/15/2010

If Harvard only accepted on merit the school would be 98% Asian women. Harvard is in the *business* of articifially proping up the idiot offspring of rich white guys.

[Amalek]

09:14 AM on 04/15/2010

I am having difficulty reconciling this with something I just heard on the news - 72% of layoffs in the recession were men.

[Usama]

03:46 AM on 04/15/2010

Women continue to be presented as a minority, a discriminated group. However, racial and ethnic minorities are facing systemic discrimination which is subjugated to causes of women's interests. Case in point, education. Today, women compose over 50% of all undergraduates. Meanwhile, blacks, in particular black males are only single digits in higher learning. Why?
Because black males graduate high school at a rate of less than 50%. Same as latino males. In some urban areas like New York city, black males graduate high school at a rate of less than 40%.
Latino males also are opting out of the education system with poor graduation rates and university attendance.
And all of this is reflected in the US Senate. There are 17 women senators- all white. There is only one black senator- Barack Obama's appointed successor who will likely not win an election.
This societal trend is having massive impact on crime, family unity and stability, drug use, and standard of living.
Presenting the 'plight' of white women in the most prestigious university in the world as a public concern speaks to the myopic sensibilities of HP. This story has little public interest.

[stormoya]

03:02 AM on 04/15/2010

it is a festering sore

[stormoya]

03:01 AM on 04/15/2010

i saw firsthand how women faculty were treated at harvard. unbelievable that bandaid of sexism is just ripped off. really horrible when it comes to women, not just in the business school.