Don't Follow The Crowd...Albert Einstein

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”

--Albert Einstein

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today, Leadership Tuesdays continues a series looking at why women are not seeking advance degrees in business at the same rate they get other professional degrees and why women are not proportionately represented in senior leadership positions in business.

Meg Whitman's mom gave her some of the best advice that a mom can give any child. She said to her, "Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb idea... no one has done that before... girls don't do that.'" That advice has served Whitman extremely well. Sadly, her mom's words still does not apply equally to all women in the United States much less to women around the world.

Taking a look back to the Fall of 2004, Carlotta Mast wrote an article that appeared on the Graduate Management Admission Council's website, gmac.com, discussing why women continue to make up less than 50% of the student body at business schools. As stated in her article, companies and business schools all say that want to increase the number of women in their leadership positions and programs. But why isn't this happening?

To read her article, click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, see here.