Confronting Paradox: Exploring Mentoring Relationships as a Catalyst for Understanding the Strength and Resilience of Professional Indian Women

Stacy Blake-Beard

Chapter 3 in Unveiling Women’s Leadership, 2015, pp 25-43 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The challenges and opportunities facing professional Indian women as they move through their careers is discussed, with a special focus on how they face the dilemma of integrating their professional and familial roles. These women spoke of the power of mentoring relationships in guiding them in their careers. But they also shared some of the limitations they faced in enacting mentoring relationships, including norms about developing close relationships with men outside of familial boundaries. This chapter broadens the cultural lens by exploring more diverse cultural perspectives from the existing dominance of mentoring research from a Western context.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Uncertainty Avoidance; Indian Woman; Mentor Relationship; Male Friend (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137547064_3

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