A Hard Life

In U.S. colleges women account for more than 60% of the undergraduate population, yet among faculty women are a minority. In our institution the business department has the highest enrollment of students, of which nearly two thirds are female. Yet, women comprise only 18% of the business faculty. These numbers are not dramatically different from those at other schools.

Interestingly the business school I am visiting in India has a predominantly female faculty and female administrators, even though women comprise less than 50% of the student population. The administrators are highly competent and hard working- many of them work more than twelve hours a day, six days a week (with the second Saturday off). A lesson, perhaps, for American educational institutions. Hire more women, give them freedom to work and create.