We are interested in launching one of the world's few and only MBA for Women CEO Programs. One other exists in the world, that we know, and it has deep and rich history and domain....
Fifty-plus percent of the world's MBA students are women. Three percent of Fortune 500 companies employ a woman as CEO. Glass ceiling? YES. Time to break that apart?
Why has it taken so long?
Women. Mothers and daughters holding together more than half of our wealth, families, structures worldwide. Women teaching daughters and also, importantly sons in this world how to treat women....in families, in marriages, in companies....
The connection with the Blueflash? This has several levels....firstly, it is my own time to recon with this issue....YES, it is time for us as CIBU to get down to serious and launch this effort formally....YES, it is time for MBA programs to wake up on another front....namely this one....YES, this is a great opportunity for so many to benefit...
See, blueflash living and thinking involves a continuing series of positive flashes of blue light....insight into the rarest form of what;s worthwhile....
Blue light is gender neutral....but this essay is about my enthusiasm for a new horizon which could be remarkable in scope and long overdue in delivery!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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I am so pleased to share my thoughts now on your blog! As a son to a mother who taught school then started her own interior design business, and a brother to two sisters who include a dentist and a hospital administrator I grew up in a home where women not only oversaw the home and family, but they were successful business leaders. Yet, I am also aware that my mother, a member of the Greatest Generation (Great Depression/WWII), though she was encouraged to attend college as her sisters, she as they were also discouraged from attending medical school, as their brothers did. There have been great strides made, but there is much more to be done... women's studies programs are valuable education in the past, a women's CEO program will be a valuable exerience for the future. No more glass ceilings starts with breaking some panes!
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