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Women, Ethics, and MBAs

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We argue that the declining female enrollment in graduate business schools is a manifestation of gender bias in business education. The extant conceptual foundation of business education is one which views business activity in terms of a game with fixed and wholly material objectives. This concept betrays an underlying value system that reflects a male orientation. Business education is not merely amoral, therefore, but is gender biased. We suggest that business educators adopt a broadened behavioral rubric. Virtue-ethics theory provides such a rubric.

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MacLellan, C., Dobson, J. Women, Ethics, and MBAs. Journal of Business Ethics 16, 1201–1209 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017974022490

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