After writing a story recently about the growing number of Chinese women interested in getting their MBAs, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what is happening with female enrollment in U.S. MBA programs. The last time we wrote about the topic was back in 2009, when we highlighted some of the innovative programs business schools were running to attract more women to campus.
In the U.S., the number of women taking the GMAT has risen incrementally for the last decade, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council. There were 50,053 U.S. women who took the GMAT in 2010, a 10 percent increase from a decade ago, GMAC said.
U.S. business schools have been benefiting from the uptick in interest among female applicants, said Elissa Ellis-Sangster, director of the Forte Foundation, a consortium of 36 business schools working to increase the number of women pursuing MBAs.
Read the full article: B-School Gender Mix Changing, Slowly