A Handbook for Women Mentors

About this book

In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of women helping women via a method that has become a "hot-button" topic nationwide, mentoring.In A Handbook for Women Mentors: Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity, an expert author team, all experienced mentors, provide specific strategies for women mentoring women, showing how mentoring relationships benefit individuals, women as a group, and the nation as a whole. Discussions include ongoing challenges, and potential pitfalls, for women confronting obstacles in their education and professional careers, with special attention to minority women, whether it is a mother of four leading a university department, an African American woman working in engineering, or a Latina female advancing in the field of math.