Wall St worker Laura Hemphill says women shouldn't bother going to business school One Wall St worker says women are better off in the workforce than the classroom. Laura Hemphill. SO MUCH for women can do anything. Wall St worker Laura Hemphill has penned a piece in the New Yorker , saying women shouldn't bother going to business school, as they are wasting valuable time in the workforce before heading off to have babies. The piece called Why Women Should Skip Business School argues that despite efforts to close the gap between male and female students at schools like Harvard, the experience is not that valuable for women and can end up costing in excess of $200,000 including fees and rent. "The uncomfortable truth is that women in business are more likely than men to drop out of the workforce or have their careers interrupted a decade after earning their MBAs, because of family considerations," she wrote. Using examples such as Yahoo's Marissa Mayer and Amazon's Jeff Bezos who don't have an MBA, as well as her own experience on Wall St, Ms Hemphill said studying was not a necessity if you want to do well. Instead, she said women should focus on working as hard as possible in their twenties, or use the time to learn hard skills such as programming, a second language or start their own business. "That way, by the time she's a decade or so along, she'll have more savings, more job experience, and more bargaining power - all of which translate into more options," she wrote. Do you agree?