Simmons Executive Education for women highlighted in Wall Street Journal
The September 25 article “Female Training Classes Flourish” in the Wall Street Journal featured academic programs offering women-only executive education programs. This included Simmons College Executive Education, where enrollments have risen 30% in the past three years to 700 in the last academic year. Participants include Deloitte & Touche and Time Warner Inc. among others. “Historically, women’s executive education programs focuses on midlevel managers,” said SOM Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands. “But as the ranks of women managers expand, more programs are targeting higher-level women as well.”
The article offered up benefits to taking all-women executive education programs:
- Women feel less isolated
- Women can network with peers
- Women can discuss sex-specific challenges without worrying about offending men
- Women can trade strategies about work and family issues
- Women quickly develop a sense of camaraderie in the classroom
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