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CareerWomen.com released a
survey which found that 62% of women now
have a formal or informal mentor in the workplace. Of these mentors,
64% were male and 36% were female. As with Venus and Mars, however, the
support they provide is very different. Male mentors help women by
providing general business training, leadership opportunities, coaching
feedback and advice on networking and career advancement. Women mentors
help other women by providing informal fellowship, guidance within the
corporation, motivation, encouragement, and strategies for career
success, work/life balance, job sharing, maternity leave and
counteracting gender bias. All of which is to say that, as with the
solar system, it’s best to have both. In other words, women should seek
not one, but two mentors … one from Mars and the other from Venus.
Source: Weddle's
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Posted on March 12, 2008 4:13:23 AM PST
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