Gender and the MBA: Differences in Career Trajectories, Institutional Support, and Outcomes
基于74位精英大学MBA毕业生的访谈数据，研究发现男女在毕业后遵循三种职业路径，其中在过渡路径上男性职业发展显著优于女性，表明清晰的晋升阶梯能减少性别偏见，而多次跳槽对女性不利。
This study asks how men's and women's careers diverge following MBA graduation from an elite university, using qualitative interview data from 74 respondents. We discover men and women follow three career pathways post-graduation: lockstep (stable employment), transitory (3 or more employers), and exit (left workforce). While similar proportions of men and women followed the lockstep pathways and launched accelerated careers, sizable gender differences emerged on the transitory pathway; men's careers soared as women's faltered on this path-the modal category for both. On the transitory path, men fared much better than women when moving to new organizations, suggesting that gender may become more salient when people have a shorter work history with a company. Our findings suggest that clear building blocks to promotions reduce gender bias and ambiguity in the promotion process, but multiple external moves hamper women, putting them at a clear disadvantage to men whose forward progress is less likely to be stalled by such moves.