MBA

It remains a great puzzle. Approximately half of medical students and more than one-third of law students are women, whereas less than 15% of MBA students are women in India. The fast change in Indian economic structure from manufacturing to service demands greater participation of women in the workforce. There is a strong need for business schools and industry to collaborate and take proactive actions to attract more women to management careers. According to a BusinessWeek survey, women make up only 28% of incoming MBA classes for BusinessWeek’s Top 30 B-Schools in the US, about the same as four years ago. Further, more Chinese women take GMAT exam than Chinese men. According to a profile of GMAT candidates for 2004-05, 56% of GMAT test takers in China are women, while in India the ratio is only 23%.