Article of The Sydney Morning Herald, July 1, 2010.

More women are heading to business school than ever before. According to a report released last year by the US Department of Education, women received 44 per cent of all MBAs in 2007, a 75 per cent increase from a decade earlier.

That’s thousands of women pouring into the market every year with newly minted business degrees. Many are making traditional career choices – going into finance and consulting – and many more are using their degrees to chart their own course.

“Women want to get to the c-level,” says Tonya Olpin, executive director of the National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA).