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V Meschitti, HL Smith - J. Res. Gender Stud., 2017 - HeinOnline

Does Mentoring Make a Difference for Women Academics: Evidence from the Literature and a Guide for Future Research.

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions AND Program Evaluation

Meschitti, Smith

GSID: 05MCe4PuyCAJ

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This paper aims at reviewing literature on mentoring in academia, with a focus on mentoring to enhance women's careers. A significant gender imbalance in science persists, and mentoring has been recognized as an important instrument for fostering academic women's careers and addressing such imbalance. However, often the benefits of mentoring are taken for granted. This review aims to unpack the concept of mentoring, understand which trends characterize the mentoring literature, and analyze the evidence; moreover, it aims to …

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