{"id":3064,"date":"2010-01-26T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2010-01-26T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:19:52","slug":"repostthe-true-secret-of-female-mbas-freakonomics-blog-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/repostthe-true-secret-of-female-mbas-freakonomics-blog-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The True Secret of Female MBA\u2019s? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is a strange twist. Many of the best and brightest women in the U.S. get an MBA so they can earn high wages, but they end up marrying the best and brightest men, who also earn high wages \u2014 which affords these women the luxury of not having to work so much. \u2026 Perhaps they never would have met such husbands if they hadn\u2019t gone to business school.\u201d
\nWould you cut us some slack? I think we are smarter than you give us credit for! Especially for two guys who are willing to go back 20-plus years to understand that the drop in crime in the 1990\u2019s was due to the outcome of Roe v. Wade! You need a similarly long perspective on this issue because you are missing the boat.<\/strong>
\nMany of us \u2014 here\u2019s the surprise \u2014 got our MBAs precisely because we wanted to have children and work, and we knew we wouldn\u2019t be able to recover from the economic hit nearly as well unless we had an MBA to accelerate us back up the speed ramp when we re-entered the workforce post-child-raising! <\/strong>In fact, one could argue that having an MBA helps on the pregnancy end too, with presumably higher skills and therefore occasionally higher leverage to negotiate a better childcare leave than we might have otherwise.
\nvia The True Secret of Female MBA\u2019s? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is a strange twist. Many of the best and brightest women in the U.S. get an MBA so they can earn high wages, but they end up marrying the best and brightest men, who also earn high wages \u2014 which affords these women the luxury of not having to work so much. \u2026 Perhaps … <\/p>\n

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