The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Editorial

For the past 10 years, women have represented about 35 percent of full-time MBA students at the Wharton School and its peer institutions.

Two years ago, Wharton became the first of these schools to reach the 40-percent benchmark. And it has remained the only one to do so.

We commend Wharton’s efforts to attract more women. By holding admissions presentations, Wharton is able to develop relationships with students before they matriculate into MBA programs.

We further commend our numerous peer schools that have been working toward increasing MBA diversity. Institutions such as Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University have recently adopted similar outreach programs to Wharton’s, and have seen similar success.

However, there are still gains to be made in terms of gender equality and MBA matriculation. Wharton and its peer schools must continue, and strengthen, their efforts to increase female participation.

As the top MBA programs of America, these schools must lead by example.

Do you think Wharton is doing enough to recruit women? Send us a letter to the editor to share your thoughts: letters@thedp.com.

Comments (3)

DP - We've put up with these absolutely baseless, uninformative staff editorials since January. I was hoping they'd end for the summer, but clearly they haven't. Whoever is behind these, PLEASE realize that they are only besmirching the DP's name, and have also been the target of jokes among the staff of other Ivy newspapers.

"There are still gains to be made in terms of gender equality and MBA matriculation." What kind of journalistic statement is that?!?!?! NO DUH THERE ARE. Just like diversity in undergrad admissions (the subject of another baseless editorial from earlier in the semester), or progress in race understanding on campus.

"Editorials" imply some sort of controversy... taking a position that is interesting and provocative. Every single editorial has basically been the opposite. Not to mention that in many cases they don't even make sense (example: if the vast majority of applicants are male, it would make no sense to admit 50% females unless rejecting some of the best students based on gender was deemed appropriate).

Please stop writing these... or at least take an interesting stand on issues, as the DP used to be known for.

But the analysis, all 150+ words, is so deep and meaningful! I feel much more intelligent and informed as a result of reading it.

I love how dp members respond to totally accurate criticisms of their editorials by trying to make fun of the critic. If you'd learned to take criticism earlier in life, you'd be writing better editorials.

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