Female mentorship
Female mentorship is the mentoring of women by women to further their career and development prospects.[1][2][3][4][5] A female mentor is sometimes called a femtor.[6]
Rhodes Project
[edit]The Rhodes Project, which examines the experience of female Rhodes Scholars, was created in 2004 by Ann Olivarius.[7] Rhodes Scholars are chosen from around the world for graduate study at the University of Oxford. The project showcases research on the lack of career-support networks, based on interviews and data from female Rhodes Scholars who were born in the 1950s to 1980s and who earned graduate and professional degrees until the early 2000s.[7][8] The project is interested in how this data reflects the current situation of women. One interviewee told the researchers: "It would have been helpful to really know to what extent things still haven’t changed for women. ... How I would have handled situations might have been different if I had understood what was going on behind the scenes. The blatant examples are something that you deal with but it’s the subtle things and understanding those that I would have worked through differently."[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Joann Keyton, "Power and Equality in Mentoring Relationships," in Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Michael J. Cody (eds.), Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships, Routledge, 2012, pp. 189–212.
- ^ Lori D. Patton, "My Sister's Keeper: A Qualitative Examination of Mentoring Experiences among African American Women in Graduate and Professional Schools," The Journal of Higher Education, 80(5), Sept–Oct 2009, pp. 510–537. JSTOR 27750743
- ^ Shannon Portillo, "Mentoring Minority and Female Students: Recommendations for Improving Mentoring in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs," Journal of Public Affairs Education, 13(1), Winter 2007, pp. 103–113. JSTOR 40215772
- ^ Gabrielle Bernstein (2 November 2011). "Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection". Huffingtonpost.
- ^ Erin Ganju, "What 'Star Wars' can teach you about the importance of mentorship", Fortune, 17 June 2015.
- ^ Ruth Nicole Brown, Between empowerment and marginalization, University of Michigan (doctoral thesis), 2005, pp. 101–104.
- ^ a b Rudy, Susan (November 25, 2014). "The Rhodes Project: Celebrating many versions of what women can be". Oxford Human Rights Club.
- ^ "Our Mission". The Rhodes Project. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Susan Rudy and Kate Blackmon. "'I wish I'd had a female mentor': what Rhodes Scholars say about the lack of change for women". Rhodes Project. Archived from the original (web) on December 9, 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
Further reading
[edit]- Erin Wunker (14 October 2014). "Want Healthy Communities in the Literary Arts? Focus On Mentorship". CWILA: Canadian Women in the Literary Arts.