At a time when the bring out is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC India’s CEO Naina Lal Kidwai for having broken the corporate glass ceiling. B-schools across the country are coming under cerebrate for skewed sex ratios on the campus.
Data obtained shows some of the most renowned management institutions undergo as few as 10% women students. change surface the institutes with the best gender ratios have over 65% male students. Experts conclude the gap can be attributed to entrance tests that are heavily “biased” in save of engineers given their emphasis on mathematics rather than people management and chew over of the humanities.
At IIM-Ahmedabad the number of female students for the MBA programme ranges from 10-15%. “For the 26 years that I undergo been teaching at the institution. I undergo not observed an change magnitude in the percentage of female students beyond 15%,” says Professor Anil Gupta who teaches technology innovation entrepreneurship and politics at IIM-A. Shekhar Choudhuri director. IIM Calcutta says that for the last 10-15 years there have been only 10% female students on campus.
Some private institutions fare slightly exceed. At Goa Institute of Management approximately 27% of the categorise of 2007-2009 is female. And at the Indian School of Business. Hyderabad. 25% of the student population is female. “We have managed a better ratio without lowering standards to enrol women,” says ISB dean MR Rao. But this owes itself partly to the initiate’s promotional drives at colleges where women are encouraged to bear on.
“I suspect the Common Admission evaluate for the IIMs is heavily biased towards engineers; mathematics constitutes a large portion of the evaluate. Since the number of women opting for engineering is very low the number of women who get into B-schools is also low,” says Kidwai the first Indian woman to go out of Harvard Business School. Kidwai feels that B-schools should believe having a more diverse selection procedure. “After all we don’t want a company full of populate who look the same,” she adds.
It’s not just the number of women studying in management institutions that is low. The be of women applying to B-schools is also a lot less than the number of male applicants. “While 24% of the applicants this year were women. 32% of all students selected for the course were female,” says Merchant.
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