Women with business sense are staying at home
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Women who earned Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degrees were more likely to become stay-at-home mums than those with medical or law degrees, according to a business school study, Reuters reports today.
The University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business study of nearly 1,000 Harvard undergraduates found that 15 years after graduation, business school graduates were more likely than doctors or lawyers to leave the workforce.
"Within a field, we find that women who are in family-friendly environments are more likely to stay working," Associate Professor Catherine Wolfram said in a statement.
Wolfram and her colleague Jane Leber Herr of UC Berkeley's economics department speculated that the business world was less female-friendly than the fields of medicine and law.
The workplace environment played a significant role in determining career longevity, said Wolfram.
Doctors, for example, often work in private practices and may be able to work part-time more easily than women in other fields. On the other hand, businesswomen more commonly adhere to the corporate dictate of long hours and heavy travel.
Should business fields be more responsive to women's needs to take career breaks to have children? In this day and age should women really be relegated to professions that are so-called 'woman-friendly'? Or in the modern digital age, should all employers offer flexible working for all their staff, men and women, to improve everyone's lives?
The University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business study of nearly 1,000 Harvard undergraduates found that 15 years after graduation, business school graduates were more likely than doctors or lawyers to leave the workforce.
"Within a field, we find that women who are in family-friendly environments are more likely to stay working," Associate Professor Catherine Wolfram said in a statement.
Wolfram and her colleague Jane Leber Herr of UC Berkeley's economics department speculated that the business world was less female-friendly than the fields of medicine and law.
The workplace environment played a significant role in determining career longevity, said Wolfram.
Doctors, for example, often work in private practices and may be able to work part-time more easily than women in other fields. On the other hand, businesswomen more commonly adhere to the corporate dictate of long hours and heavy travel.
Should business fields be more responsive to women's needs to take career breaks to have children? In this day and age should women really be relegated to professions that are so-called 'woman-friendly'? Or in the modern digital age, should all employers offer flexible working for all their staff, men and women, to improve everyone's lives?
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- LindseyIndigo
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