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...national tournament Radcliffe will face regional powerhouses Brown, Princeton, and Virginia, as well as Michigan, Washington and UC-Berkeley...
...national tournament Radcliffe will face regional powerhouses Brown, Princeton, and University of Virginia, as well as teams from Michigan, University of Washington and University of California-Berkeley...
...with this in mind that the University of Michigan, together with Catalyst, a nonprofit research and advisory organization that focuses on advancing women in business, teamed up to find out why talented women aren't pursuing M.B.A.s. The study, sponsored by 13 companies including Kraft, Citicorp and Deloitte & Touche, is still in the data-gathering stage, with results expected in early 2000. But its organizers have some theories of their own, as do plenty of women who have M.B.A.s, are in school or have decided against the degree...
...school with the most, and the best, female talent, the real problem may not be with the M.B.A. programs themselves. "It's not just the business-school atmosphere that we're concerned with," says Jeanne Wilt, who is overseeing the study at the University of Michigan's Business School. "It's also the decision to go into business...
...broad conclusions from the focus groups, say the researchers, but that negative view of business is in line with the long-standing theory that "women are drawn to jobs with some kind of obvious societal utility," says Carol Hollenshead, director of the Center for the Education of Women at Michigan. "Medicine, law and, increasingly, science and engineering can all be associated with helping people in some way," Hollenshead says. "The business world may need to make a better case for how it does some social good...