Career mentoring for women: New horizons/Expanded methods

Terry Morehead Dworkin, Virginia Maurer and Cindy A. Schipani

Business Horizons, 2012, vol. 55, issue 4, 363-372

Abstract: Although women make up nearly half of the workforce in the United States, the number of women who hold senior management positions in large U.S. firms continues to be disproportionately low. This fact raises concerns about individual fairness and equality of opportunity. Herein, we demonstrate that the use of strong mentoring programs holds great promise as a way to increase the number of women in senior management roles. An extensive study supports the mentoring program recommendation, as do examples of foreign firms which far more readily employ women in executive positions than do U.S. firms.

Keywords: Women; Management; Opportunity; Equality; Mentoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2012.03.001

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