An M.B.A. Student Asks: Where Are the Women?

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This article is reprinted by permission from CareerJournal.com

When I set foot in Berkeley’s Haas School of Business last August, I quickly realized there was something glaringly missing… other women. In my first core statistics class of 60 students, there were 16 of us. The first cocktail party truly was a sea of men. This was a particularly odd feeling for me having just come from four years working at Lifetime Television for Women in New York and having graduated from Wellesley, a women’s college in Massachusetts, prior to that.

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