Female Affirmative Action Update: Mass. fellowships aim to elevate women in business

The Boston Globe reports:

The Patrick administration will fund at least a dozen yearlong graduate fellowships to place women in state managerial jobs at full salary, with the aim of helping more of them gain entrance to the executive suites in government and private organizations.

The program, expected to cost roughly $1 million in its first year, follows recent studies that show Massachusetts is not keeping pace with other states in terms of women achieving leadership posts. One report, for example, found that more than half the state’s largest publicly traded companies did not have any female executive officers.

“We’re in the midst of the most profound global economic competition,” Governor Deval Patrick said Tuesday. “To me that means we need all the talent on the field ready to play.”

No word yet on whether " the Patrick administration will fund at least a dozen graduate fellows" to go to Harvard who happen to be registered Republicans or libertarians since they are under-represented at Harvard where they seem to have a glass ceiling on those who don't promote socialism.