MBA case studies lack female leaders

By Jonathan Moules

Gender equality is important to Lesley Symons. So when she was choosing her masters degree course, she applied to Insead in large part because the cohort was an almost equal split between male and female students.
However, when she started the programme at Insead’s Fontainebleau campus, Ms Symons was perturbed to find that the business case studies her class were expected to read were anything but balanced.