Late in 2004, China Daily News headline a “Men want career women want men.” The article was informed of a survey conducted in Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province. Its main conclusion: “The emphasis on job creation selection for Chinese male students on career prospects while women say they want their center plans where husbands are easy to find satisfactory. ”

It takes all kinds. In December 2005, another report entitled China “Teen girls eye executive jobs.” This is the result of a survey conducted by Japan’s Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living. The women interviewed in Shanghai and Tokyo about their plans for the future. The Japan choice: child care, teachers, doctors, Flight Attendants, and housewives. In contrast, Chinese women have indicated its five major decisions were teachers, the chairman or CEO, designer of mass communication and jobs related to the framework.

The newspaper reported Wu Zunmin, a professor at East China Normal University department of education, explains that the differences were due to cultural traditions in both nations. Japanese girls were traditionally well-trained, which could serve as wives, their husbands. Years, rapid urbanization, economic development Chinese girls have learned that the aim high and have a well-paid work, using a large enterprise.

MUMBAI: At a time when the focus is on PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and HSBC India’s CEO Naina Lal Kidwai, the fact that companies breaks “glass ceiling”, B-schools across the country are priorities the next sex ratio rises to the campus.

Data shows that some of the most prestigious management institutions have more than 10% female students. Similarly, the institutions that have the best rate of sex, more than 65% of male students. Experts feel the difference can be attributed to the test, to the strong “partial” for engineers, because it emphasis on mathematics and not like human beings and management studies humanities.

At IIM, Ahmedabad, the number of women for students, the MBA program ranges from 10-15%. “For 26 years, since I joined the teaching at the university, I have not met, the proportion of female students by more than 15%,” says Professor Anil Gupta, who learns, Technology , innovation, entrepreneurship and the policy of IIM A. Shekhar Choudhuri, director, IIM Calcutta, said that in the last 10-15 years, there were only 10% female students on campus.

Some private institutions slightly higher price. In Goa Institute of Management, approximately 27% of the class of 2007-2009 is a woman. And in India School of Business, Hyderabad, 25% of the student population is female. “We have succeeded, without an improvement over the decline of standards to connect women,” says Dean of the ISB MR Rao. But this is partly due to the Institute for the Advancement of readers in the UAS, where women are encouraged to apply.

“I think the common Admission Test of the IIMs is difficult engineering, mathematics is a major part of the examination. Given that the number of women who are interested in technology is very low, the number of Women who are in the B schools - is also very low, “says Kidwai, the first Indian woman at the Harvard Business School. Kidwai believes that the B-schools should be a wide variety of choices. “Because we do not want a company full of people who look alike,” she adds.

It is not just the number of women in studies and administration, weak institutions. The number of women of the B-schools is also far less than the number of male candidates. “While 24% of the candidates this year were women, 32% of students were selected, of course, for women,” says Merchant.