Female mentorship is the mentoring of women by women to further their career and development prospects.[1][2][3][4][5] A female mentor is sometimes called a femtor.[6]
Rhodes Project
The Rhodes Project, which examines the experience of female Rhodes Scholars, was created in 2004 by Ann Olivarius.[7] Rhodes Scholars are chosen from around the world for graduate study at the University of Oxford. The project showcases research on the lack of career-support networks, based on interviews and data from female Rhodes Scholars who were born in the 1950s to 1980s and who earned graduate and professional degrees until the early 2000s.[7][8] The project is interested in how this data reflects the current situation of women. One interviewee told the researchers: "It would have been helpful to really know to what extent things still haven’t changed for women. ... How I would have handled situations might have been different if I had understood what was going on behind the scenes. The blatant examples are something that you deal with but it’s the subtle things and understanding those that I would have worked through differently."[9]
^Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Joann Keyton, "Power and Equality in Mentoring Relationships," in Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Michael J. Cody (eds.), Gender, Power, and Communication in Human Relationships, Routledge, 2012, pp. 189–212.
^Lori D. Patton, "My Sister's Keeper: A Qualitative Examination of Mentoring Experiences among African American Women in Graduate and Professional Schools," The Journal of Higher Education, 80(5), Sept–Oct 2009, pp. 510–537. JSTOR27750743
^Shannon Portillo, "Mentoring Minority and Female Students: Recommendations for Improving Mentoring in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs," Journal of Public Affairs Education, 13(1), Winter 2007, pp. 103–113. JSTOR40215772