Investigating MBA degrees earned by women: A decade of change

Post-Secondary Institution Level and Control: Effect on Women’s Proportion of Entrepreneurship Degrees

“…The percentage of women obtaining post-secondary degrees at U.S. colleges and universities has continued to increase since the first few women were allowed a university education in the early 1800 s (McConnell et al., 2016). Taken at face value, this trend appears to be positive; however, McConnell et al.…”

“…The percentage of women obtaining post-secondary degrees at U.S. colleges and universities has continued to increase since the first few women were allowed a university education in the early 1800 s (McConnell et al., 2016). Taken at face value, this trend appears to be positive; however, McConnell et al. (2016) more deeply examined MBAs earned by women at U.S. higher education institutions to determine if there were differences based on institutional characteristics such as institutional type and found statistically significant differences for all of the factors examined.…”

“…Unlike McConnell et al. (2016) which examined the female-awarded percentage of MBAs based on Carnegie classification, the number of EDC observations in the IPEDS data does not permit such granular analysis.…”

“…As such the more general characteristics of level and control allow for greater inclusion while still providing meaningful analysis. In addition, there were too few data points to divide, for example, private schools into private for-profit and private not-for-profit as analyzed in McConnell et al. (2016).…”

“…(2020) notes more research is needed on how institutional environment gendering factors into women’s pursuit of entrepreneurship. To explore this gap, the authors used a similar analytical framework to that used by McConnell et al. (2016) to examine the effects of institutional characteristics on the percentage of MBA degrees earned by women at U.S. universities.…”