More women with MBAs take
mommy-track than doctors: study
Women who earned Masters of
Business Administration (MBA) degrees were more likely to become stay-at-home
moms than those with medical or law degrees, according to a study.
The University of California Berkeley Haas School of
Business study of nearly 1,000 Harvard undergraduates found that 15 years after
graduation, business school graduates were more likely than doctors or lawyers
to leave the workforce.
"Within a field, we find that women who are in
family-friendly environments are more likely to stay working," Associate
Professor Catherine Wolfram said in a statement.
Wolfram and her colleague Jane Leber Herr of UC Berkeley's
economics department speculated that the business world was less female-friendly
than the fields of medicine and law.
The study used Harvard College reunion surveys for the
1988 to 1991 graduating class as their initial data.
Those surveyed were about 37 years old and had at least
one child. Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard College, 28 percent of
the women who went on to get MBAs were stay-at-home moms. By comparison, only 6
percent of MDs stopped working outside of the home.
Of the MBAs surveyed, 27 percent had careers in the
financial sector and 17 percent worked in consulting. The majority of the MDs
worked in specialties centered on women (13 percent in obstetrics/gynecology),
children (31 percent in pediatric medicine), and family.
The workplace environment played a significant role in
determining career longevity, said Wolfram.
Doctors, for example, often work inprivate practices and
may be able to work part-time more easily than women in other fields. On the
other hand, businesswomen more commonly adhere to the corporate dictate of long
hours and heavy travel.(Agencies)
研究：MBA女性更可能當全職媽媽
一項最新研究表明，獲MBA（工商管理碩士）學位的女性比學醫或學法律的女性更有可能成為全職媽媽。
加利福尼亞大學柏克利分校哈斯商學院開展對哈佛學院的近一千名本科生進行了調查。調查發現，與醫學或法律專業的學生相比，商學院的學生在畢業15年後離開工作崗位的可能性更大。
凱瑟琳?沃爾夫勒姆副教授在一份說明中說：“我們發現，在某一特定領域內，處在“有利于家庭’的環境中的女性長期工作的可能性更大。”
沃爾夫勒姆及其經濟學係的同事簡?萊伯?赫爾由此推斷，商界不如醫藥和法律行業有利于女性任職。
該研究使用的原始數據來源于哈佛學院對1988年至1991年畢業班所做的回訪調查。
這些調查對象的年齡約為37歲，並且至少有一個孩子。調查顯示，從哈佛學院畢業15年後，28%獲得MBA學位的女性成了全職媽媽，而僅有6%成為醫學博士的女性放棄了工作。
在受訪的MBA女性中，27%的人在金融行業工作，17%的人從事咨詢工作。多數成為醫學博士的女性則主要從事與女性（13%從事產科或婦科工作）、兒童（31%從事兒科醫學工作）和家庭有關的工作。
沃爾夫勒姆說，女性的職業壽命很大程度上取決于她們的工作環境。
比如，醫生大多在私人診所工作，所以與其他行業的女性相比，當醫生的女性做兼職更容易。相比之下，在商界打拼的女性則不得不聽從公司的安排，要經常出差。
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