Corporate America's Future Male Leaders Don't Really Believe In Gender Equality
For all the advancements society has made in gender equality, it looks like future male leaders in the United States might want things to go back to the way they were.
Gen Y Harvard and MIT MBA candidates "hold more traditional attitudes about gender roles in the workplace than the rest of their Gen Y cohort," Erica Dhawan wrote for the Harvard Business Review.
Dhawan surveyed both male and female first-year MBA candidates and found women expect to take on more responsibility in the home while men seemed to acknowledge their career aspirations would take them away from their families.
While the study surveyed MBA candidates and not law students, the two groups often share similar attitudes, with Vivian Chen over at The Careerist saying she "wouldn't be surprised if you get similar results from J.D. candidates at the top law schools."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-lawyers-and-gender-roles-2012-12
