Comment on Women have no need of an MBA to be board-ready

1.      The attitude toward the acceptability of women in the board of directors of any organization becoming work-related attitudes which generally there is a prejudice and discrimination for women to be acceptable for the said post.

2.      The perception towards women’s capabilities has completed all three (3) basic components of attitudes. Basically, the proponents of this perception believe that women are slow and emotionally not stable to be a member of the board of directors. This statement satisfies the basic requirement of attitude which is cognitive component. In the next level which is evaluative component, a proponent will evaluate that a board of directors with women as a part of the members, will always not effective and very complicated to deal with. Therefore, in the behavioral component, the proponents will try to avoid women as a member of board of directors.

Since there is a pressure from the society on the sex-role stereotypes in which a narrow minded will believe that only a certain job will be suitable for a certain gender, therefore it will persistently push the proponents to adding up a certain requirement to make their attitude becoming more relaxed. Therefore they proposed women to have MBA in order to be reliable as a member of the boards.

3.      However, studies have proved that women are at the same par with men provided that both are having the same input and background. Based on this argument, the opponents of the mentioned perception rejected the idea of having MBA as a requirement to be a board-ready.

4.      The opponents also believe that a strong networking, a life-long learning (not necessary by having MBA) and charismatic personality are required in order to be a leader. These three (3) conditions are all applicable for both board candidates either they are men or women.

5.      Therefore an MBA is not a requirement for women to have it in order to be a board-ready. An MBA is not a balancer for women to be at the same par with men. Scientifically a woman is similar to a man in term of mental capabilities and capacities. Therefore any requirement for women is also applicable to men and there is should be no bias, prejudice and discrimination in the judgment.