1. GENDER ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
– A study on employability and gender issues
in managerial positions
PRESENTED BY
VISHNU.VISWAMBHARAN
AND
CREMELIN VENUS

2. IDENTIFACTION OF THE PROBLEM
 Employability and gender aspects in managerial positions.
 Need for redefining the management education curriculum

3. OBJECTIVES
 The achievement pattern of different sex’s over their career
span of life and educational span of life.
 Individuals self perceptions, emotions and ambitions.
 Risk factors of men and women in terms of specialization as
well as learning capacity .
 Caution of underachieving - partially considered on the basis
of gender at education and work.
 in born sex differences and acquired characteristics.
 Male and female behavior at work and in classroom sessions.

4. SCOPE AND SIGNIFACANCE
 Demand for managers who have strategic approach towards
management crisis.
 Quality of education is the base of employability.
 Acute consideration should be provided for gender dynamics
and stereotyping that exist in the management education.

5. LITERATURE REVIEW
 Management education in India – need for quality standards
– by Dr.Manu.N.Kulkarni
Stressed on –
a. Quality of Faculty recruited
b. Quality of Infrastructure provided
c. Quality of Library and brainstorming discussion groups
and seminars led by top Professional Management Gurus
d. Last but not the least is the placement provided by the
Institutes based on industry needs .

6. LITERATURE REVIEW
 Gender Issues – Oxford Brooks University
It stressed on –
a. the patterns of achievement of males and females over their
lifetimes, and not just their educational lifetimes
b. pupils’ self perceptions, motivation and ambitions insofar
as these seem to be influenced by their gender
c. the risks of boys and girls being gender stereotyped in
school, in terms of their subject specialism's, learning
capacity etc.
d. the danger of their underachieving, at least partially on the
basis of their gender.

7. SPECIFYING THE RESEARCH PURPOSE
 This study is sought to determine the major gender issues
that has been confronting in the management education. It
also seeks to tease out the various deficiencies that exist in
the management education. It also explains how to deal with
these issues and by that ensuring employability and avoiding
gender bias.

8. METHODOLOGY
Questionnaire method – Target questions :
Target question where designed to conduct this study because
it demands an investigative questioning as it leads to core
issues of management education which is a too specific study.
Questions includes structured questions.

9. Research Questions
 In order to achieve the purpose of the study, the questions
were generated.
 The data generated will help to unravel the major challenges
in management education in respect to gender issues.
 The data generated will help in evolving appropriate
measures and alternatives and that will enable academicians
to compact the problems and make employable managers.
 In addition the data generated will also help to expand the
frontiers of knowledge or add to the existing literature in the
area.

10. Research Questions
 Finally it is hoped that the outcome of the study will help in
making breakthrough changes in the management education
and an solution to gender bias that exist.

11. REPORTING AND EVALUVATING
RESEARCH
 The result of the investigation revealed that there does not
exist an inequality of gender in the management education.
 Gender has never been a barrier in the career life span.
 There do exist a stereotyping in the management education
while taking specialization which are due to prejudiced
thoughts of the society.
 Male and female behavior at work and classroom are
different because there does not exist gender dynamics.
 Acquired characteristics and in born sex difference have only
partial influence, it does not effect much on the performance
level.

12. CONCLUSION
 The results of the study have helped to throw light into a new
dimension of management education and has become a
solution to eradicate the dilemma that exist in the
management education with respect to gender aspects
 Study demands for a redefining of the management
education.
 Following ways can help in dealing the gender issues in the
management education
 Be acutely sensitive to the gender dynamics in your
classroom.

13. CONCLUSION
 Encourage all students to speak.
 Provide all students with a lot of feedback and
encouragement.
 Be attentive to differences in communication styles
 Rethink