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How Pervasive is Gender-Based Discrimination in Academia?

Academia, it seems, is not immune to accusations of gender bias – and at institutions where men and women are trained for careers in management and entrepreneurship. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

According to an internal study at the prestigious Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, the institution was deemed "inhospitable to women faculty." Ironically, the school appointed its first female dean eight years ago, though she's the only woman faculty member to hold one of Anderson's 24 endowed chairs.

The irony is not lost on the dean, Dr. Judy Olian, who recently participated in a forum at the White House with other leaders of top business schools on how these institutions can play a role in helping make the workplace "friendlier" to women and to working families. And Anderson is not the only elite business higher-education institution where gender discrimination has been alleged.

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