<p>Although many undergrad business progams are 50/50 male-female, it looks like CSOM has 65 to 70% men. Why do you think that is?</p>
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<p>Really? Please name a few.</p>
<p>It’s been my experience that similar to Engineering, most undergrad biz programs that enroll Frosh are predominately male. 60-65% is common.</p>
<p>Why does the nursing school have so many women?</p>
<p>^ Not to mention the school of Education…</p>
<p>I don’t know where you got the idea that “many” undergrad business schools are 50/50 male/female. Nearly all the top programs that I know of are heavily skewed male (typically in the range of 60 - 65, or even up to 70%). For example, one of the most “even” ones is Wharton’s UG program: 58% male and only 42% female.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m looking at lower ranked schools; that could well be the issue. But, in any event, why do highly ranked undergrad business programs fail to attract more qualified females?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s because business schools are failing to attract women, but it’s because many more men want to go to business school. CSOM might have 5 spots open, and 10 men applied, but only 2 women do. Even if they accepted “100%” of women, men would still dominate. And as much as things have changed over the past few decades, business is still a ego-testosterone driven world dominated by men.</p>
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<p>For the same reason that engineering schools do?</p>
<p>Perhaps for the same reason that 60% of students taking Calc BC are guys?</p>
<p>The other posters are exactly right. Despite women and men being equally qualified, there is just a much larger proportion of males interested in business and engineering than there are females. Just as there is a much larger proportion of females interested in nursing and elementary/secondary education than there are males.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a matter of business schools “failing to attract” more women. Why don’t you ask why nursing schools fail to attract more men? I am not being sexist; I strongly believe in gender equality. (btw, I am a female civil engineer! 
) It might be cultural conditioning; it might just be social preferences.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is that b-schools (and engineering schools) admit women at a far higher rate then men. Thus, they are doing their best to recruit xx chromosomes into their classes.</p>
<p>Harvard B School started a program a few years ago (2+2) for the primary reason of recruiting more women and minorities to its B-School.</p>
<p>oops 10 char</p>