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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 What happens? The article on NYT discuss the new trend of professional women retreating to home. Some statistics are interesting: "Fifty percent of the undergraduate class of 2003 at Yale was female; this year's graduating class at Berkeley Law School was 63 percent women; Harvard was 46 percent; Columbia was 51. Nearly 47 percent of medical students are women, as are 50percent of undergraduate business majors (though, interestingly, about 30percent of M.B.A. candidates). They are recruited by top firms in all fields. They start strong out of the gate. And then, suddenly, they stop. Despite all those women graduating from law school, they comprise only 16 percent of partners in law firms. Although men and women enter corporate training programs in equal numbers, just 16 percent of corporate officers are women, and only eight companies in the Fortune 500 have female C.E.O.'s. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, 62 are women; there are 14 women in the 100-member Senate. " So it is not because of gender discrimination at workplace but nature of sex? "Why don't women run the world? Maybe it's because they don't want to. " posted by lmeimei @1:02 PM| permanent link| | |
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