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Men and women MBA Graduated offer different reasons for gender gap in Corporate world
Men and women MBA Graduated offer different reasons for gender gap in Corporate world
Kennette J. Burgess, 2011 MBA graduate and CEO, owner, and artistic director at FOCUS Marketing & Development Solutions, Inc, provides some additional insight.
“It was hard for me to advance at male-dominated companies without either allowing ill-treatment or demanding my seat at the table,” says Burgess. “As a woman, not to mention a black woman, I was often passed over and publicly belittled because I tried to foster teamwork, and was a self-starter and problem-solver who would ask a lot of questions in order to gain a comprehensive understanding. I was often deemed ‘too aggressive.’ Female empowerment is one of the many things needed to correct the C-suite ratio. Not enough women are encouraged to take up these high-paying careers, or even be entrepreneurs, and too many women are shifted, with scholarships and HR practices, to typical support roles.”
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