Almost half of men are already actively pursuing opportunities as entrepreneurs while they’re still in school pursuing their MBAs — while only 34 percent of women are building businesses out of their proverbial garages as graduate students, according to a study published today by Illuminate Ventures in conjunction with students from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.

Venture capital is famously white and male, even with efforts by the major firms in Silicon Valley to hire more women and fund their start-ups. To find out why, the study’s authors examined MBA students’ views on entrepreneurship, and how female and male MBA candidates differed, if at all, in their concerns about the career path. The report is based on a survey that included 500 responses from 20 MBA programs in the U.S. READ MORE