Successful mentoring of women

Building successful mentoring relationships.

Selected Books on Mentoring Women

Mentoring college-age women: a relational approach.

Despite the popularity of mentoring programs, the relational dimension of mentoring has not been elucidated. Traditional conceptions of mentoring may exclude factors that are particularly important for women and girls, thus limiting the efficacy of mentoring programs for female adolescents. We suggest that the presence of relational qualities in the mentoring relationship (e.g., empathy, engage...

Successful Aging for Women

We are no longer concerned just with living through our third decade but with how we are living through our sixth, seventh, and eighth. For many of us, physical survival is no longer the primary issue and attention has turned to the quality and nature of that survival, to patterns of development, and to what comprises successful aging. To be concerned with such issues is a luxury as there are s...

Group Peer Mentoring: An Answer to the Faculty Mentoring Problem? A Successful Program at a Large Academic Department of Medicine.

INTRODUCTION To address a dearth of mentoring and to avoid the pitfalls of dyadic mentoring, the authors implemented and evaluated a novel collaborative group peer mentoring program in a large academic department of medicine. METHODS The mentoring program aimed to facilitate faculty in their career planning, and targeted either early-career or midcareer faculty in 5 cohorts over 4 years, from...