Annaleigh Greene spent a term raising money for AIDS research while taking her MBA at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business.

Annie Hejripor, taking an MBA at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business, leads an organization that holds clothing drives and helps out women's shelters.

And Eliza O'Neil used her MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario to get a job as the director of strategy at Sick Kids Foundation.

If you had never met these women, it would all sound very Kumbaya, reinforcing the stereotype that women - even women with MBAs - would rather save the world than enter the business world.

You would be wrong.

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