- The INSEAD Gender Initiative plays an important role in creating women business leaders for the world
Women’s leadership is turning the world out here, but business education is one thing that is creating several women leaders and making them potential enough to lead the world. According to a media report, the women’s enrollment ratio in business schools has reached 41 per cent and is constantly increasing. Also, it has been suggested that the representation of women CEOs has also increased in number.
These numbers have not come up on their own but rather with the help of different visionary programmes taken up by institutions.
Like ‘Empowered Woman Empower Women’, Nida Januskis, Deputy Dean of Advancement at INSEAD shared with BW Businessworld how her institution playing its part and striving to reduce gender bias and promote women’s potential in the business arena.
Januskis shared, “Diversity, especially in ensuring more women pursue their MBA, is critical for us and something we’re actively working on. Firstly, we’re addressing this through scholarships. The average age of INSEAD MBA students is 29, slightly older than most of our peer schools, which tend to be around 26. This age difference can impact the risk appetite of women. Therefore, we’re committed to providing the necessary scholarships to ensure women have the support they need to attend a prestigious institution like INSEAD.”
Through their campaign, programmes and recruitment policies, INSEAD has been striving to increase women’s participation.
She also informed that scholarships play a crucial role in attracting women to business schools and in their institutions too. Among many scholarship programmes offered by INSEAD, the INSEAD Christina Law MBA‘91D Endowed Scholarship for
Asian Women provides the amount of award: Euro 8,000 – 12,000 that endorse multiple nationalities. While INSEAD Groupe Galeries Lafayette Endowed Scholarship for Women also offers Women’s scholarships for Meritorious women candidates in the amount of Euro 15,000.
On International Wonmen’s Day 2024, the institution also began the Limitless 2024 Campaign, an annual campaign that celebrates exemplary INSEAD women who will serve as role models for the generations to come.
INSEAD as an educational institution sets an exemplary illustration of encouraging women through education. With every passing year, along with scholarship programmes and campaigns, the institution is striving to enrol more and more women.
