The first university to grant a PhD in business to a woman, we continue to advocate for gender equity in business school and in the workplace. As a female student at Booth, you’ll find a strong support network, useful resources, and an array of professional opportunities.
We host a variety of events throughout the year to engage, encourage, and support women who are prospective or current Booth students.
Open to all Booth students, alumnae, and prospective students, the annual Booth Women Connect Conference brings together professionals from diverse backgrounds for dialogue and insights on topics that directly influence and affect women.
In honor of International Women’s Day, Booth hosts a weeklong series of programming each spring to celebrate women’s achievements, discuss unique issues facing women, empower individuals to work toward social change, and inspire action.
Women at Chicago Booth have many opportunities to participate in women-in-business groups and other activities and organizations.
Enjoy exclusive recruiting events, skill-building workshops, lectures, and social events. This Full-Time MBA student-led group builds professional opportunities and cultivates a supportive community for women at Booth.
This student group provides a forum for women in Booth’s Evening and Weekend MBA Programs to engage in professional development and mentoring within Booth and in the community at large.
MaB provides a centralized resource for motherhood-related issues. It also partners with other student groups to host select career- and life-planning sessions, and helps Booth students engage with alumnae for mentorship around family and career decisions.
Discover how Booth empowers women to accelerate their personal and professional growth through networks, professional opportunities, research, and discourse.
Resources for WomenBuild your professional skills and networks through a variety of professional development opportunities offered to women students and alumnae.
A two-day program for Booth alumnae planning to reenter the workforce after a break of two or more years, ReLaunch helps women strategize the transition back to the workplace.
An annual leadership program open to Evening, Weekend, and Executive MBA students, Booth Women Advance offers a workspace in which women can develop their leadership capacity. Explore, reflect on, and address your leadership challenges by tapping into a community that provides constructive feedback and support through peer mentorship.
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Propelling Women in Business ForwardAs a woman at Chicago Booth, you’ll have access to our worldwide network of business leaders. Starting your first day at Booth, you’ll find many opportunities to connect with our alumnae and learn from their experiences.
Led by a team of alumnae volunteers, the Chicago Booth Women’s Network connects Booth women around the globe and is recognized as one of the most active Booth alumni groups. Join the group in person through regular events or online through LinkedIn and Facebook.
Current Booth students are invited to quarterly off-campus brunches where they can get to know Booth MBA alumnae and share ideas over tasty food and beverages.
Chicago Booth partners with local and national organizations that support women in earning an MBA, promote women in business, boost recruitment, and provide networking opportunities.
Chicago Booth is a founding sponsor and proud supporter of the Forté Foundation, which offers a combination of scholarships, career resources, networking and mentoring opportunities, and live and online events. Each year, Chicago Booth sponsors several Forté Fellows who receive up to $20,000 in scholarship funding per year.
In partnership with the Posse Foundation, which identifies, recruits, and trains young leaders from diverse backgrounds with extraordinary leadership potential, Chicago Booth offers at least one full-tuition scholarship each year to a Posse graduate who has been admitted into Booth’s Full-Time MBA Program.
Beyond Chicago Booth, the University of Chicago is proud to welcome and support Booth women through a variety of university-wide resources.
CSGS engages students, faculty, alumni, and the community through guest lectures, conferences, speaker and film series, and a host of other programming.
The Diversity and Inclusion Initiative invites the university community to get involved in inclusion workshops, ally training opportunities, and monthly lunch-and-learn sessions that bring together individuals from across the university to learn about and act upon issues related to diversity and inclusion.
To support mothers and babies, the university maintains a number of quiet, private dedicated lactation rooms where nursing mothers can pump their breast milk during the day. At Booth, mothers have access to lactation rooms sponsored by Medela at both Gleacher Center and Harper Center.
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