Points I would like to bring across:
Please note that these are all experience based points, as I would like to elaborate. None are inferential, just those that I've observed.
1. Marriage v/s MBA. Hmm. Dicey point, this. Two examples come to mind.
One girl, my classmate at MBA. Her parents wanted her to get married immediately after graduation. She wanted a gap of two years. So her parents paid her way to an MQ seat in my class. She got married last month. To a guy in Australia. Where she'll be a housewife. She dropped out of placements midway through the programme before getting placed. My points here:
A, if you are doing a course just to gain time before marriage, why do an MBA? There are more deserving people who need to do an MBA. By paying her way through, didn't she waste that seat?
B. Ditto, during the placement programme. By not signing out early, she blocked the progress of others who could have made it to a shortlist had she not been there. Those companies that had a cap on the first shortlist for GDs, by taking her in, made someone else more deserving of that job drop out. Not their fault, they did not know of her intentions.
C. For herself - hasn't she wasted those two years in doing a course that may not be quite helpful to her? Face it, she's going to be a housewife in Australia. What need for an MBA except for that extra weight in a marriage resume? I know, this fact is a bit unparliamentary to state, but still, doesn't it exist?
The second example I am stating goes on to prove that the Marriage trap exists for men as well, not just for women. An old classmate of mine, from my Diploma days, just enrolled himself in the Dubai/Singapore MBA programme of SPJ. He'd spoken to me prior to applying, so we stayed in touch through the process. His status is that he wants to get married - but not now. May be a year, year and a half down the line. His mother started forcing him to get married. She's like, you're ready, earning well. You've selected a girl (his gf, obviously, and his mom's ok with that) and even she is of age. So why are you waiting? Get married. So, to take some time that he needs, as well as get himself an MBA, he is now doing his year long course. Not that he doesn't want to do an MBA. He does. I mentioned this here coz the timing of his MBA in his life was at a juncture discussed here. As well as the fact that the marriage trap is existing for 'him', rather than 'her'.
2. Skewed Ratios. Hmm. I hope you guys know the fundae behind shortlists & GD/PI processes. (What am I thinking, of course you do
) Ok. Here's the example.
In our GD/PI process (SIBM Admissions 2006) we had an x number of girls. The normative conversion ratio was 1:10. Due to a separate Marcom course, which somehow is a preferred course for girls (ask MICAns
) this final number was higher, and we ended up with some 70 odd girls in a batch of about 200.
Next year, SIBM Admissions 2007, the number of girls that made it through the cutoffs and ended up for the GD/PI was nearly 90. That's just 20 more than our final number. The number of girls in our immediate junior batch is close to 30~40. Is there a skew here? I doubt.
Now the catch comes here. The number of girls that made it to SIBM Admissions 2008 GD/PI? hmm... Close to 50 only. I don't have the number for the final conversions.
My contention here is this. If girls don't apply, or are smart enough to make the cutoff at each stage, even if there is a skew towards them in the GD/PI, its not going to help the female gender at all.
Again, I don't have a direct opinion on this. I just had these three cases in front of me, so decided to put them here. Pro-feminists and MCPs (Male Chauvinistic Persons, not the hog variety) may use them to stake their claims of superiority based on them, but fact remains, these I have seen. There may be many more.
Standard Disclaimers apply. The words pro-feminist & MCP are used as extreme variations of both sides, and are used in jest. Not to be taken as anything except lightly. I do not have any opinions about anything stated above, except for the first example. I personally did not like the girl's attitude towards life and MBA, and hence my opinion of the girl herself is not in the good category. The example, hence, will display this deviation.
Regards,
Grondmaster
] isn't it different profiles and different qualities used to do this. We all crib n say women r equal..now is in't it sounds as oxymoron 
. performance is a individual per se term .. It should not be taken in a collective noun sense. Every individual has its own mark..qualities. 
Life is like black guy's left ass,Its not fair and its not right!! 
. I suppose a slight gender bias does exist in after MBA jobs (in HR, notably). 
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