Women are graduating b-school without needed leadership skills

Business schools aren't preparing women for top corporate leadership roles, writes Erica Dhawan, a writer and co-founder of Galahads: The Secret Society for Kickass Women, who graduated from Wharton's undergraduate program and is an MBA candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management. The main reason is that business programs don't address the specific and unique concerns of women and men in the classroom and the concerns that come into play after graduation. Business programs need to incorporate the different life and home-role issues for men and women into the curriculum, she writes.

"On average, women are younger than men in top ten MBA programs," says MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein. "This may lead to a negative perception of their experience in the business school environment." What's more, he cites research that "has shown that women aren't called to participate as proportionally or as often in the classroom. When women are called on, the next person is less inclined to build on their comments."

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