The role of gender in mentoring: implications for diversified and homogenous mentoring relationships

By John J. Sosik, Veronica M. Godshalk. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Factors Related to Mentor Reports of Mentoring Functions Provided: Gender and Relational Characteristics (2004, methodology): “In contrast, Sosik and Godshalk (2000) found that male mentors were perceived to provide more career support to their prot ´ eg ´ es than were female mentors.”
Protégé selection by mentors: Contributing individual and organizational factors (2004, background): “As noted by Turban and Dougherty (1994), individuals interested in obtaining a mentor may need to engage in proactive behaviors.”
“Someone Like Me can be Successful”: Do College Students Need Same-Gender Role Models? (2006, unknown): “Incon-trast,malementors,whotypicallyhavetheadvantageof higherstatusinanorganization,maybebettersituated than female mentors to provide career support by giving the prot´eg´e exposure and challenging assignments (Allen & Eby, 2004; Ragins & Sundstrom, 1989; Sosik & Godshalk, 2000).”
Peer Mentoring in Postsecondary Education: Implications for Research and Practice (2006, background): “Sosik and Godshalk (2000) also found that in dyads where the mentor was male and the mentee was female, the mentee reported a higher amount of career development than any other arrangement of mentoring dyads.”
The role of gender in youth mentoring relationship formation and duration (2008, background): “Likewise, Sosik and Godshalk (2000) found that female–female mentoring relationships offered a greater level of friendship, counseling, and personal support than did other gender combinations.”
The Role of Interpersonal Comfort in Mentoring Relationships (2005, background): “The importance of interpersonal comfort has been frequently alluded to in the mentoring literature (Ragins & Cotton, 1993; Sosik & Godshalk, 2000), but never directly investigated.”
Mentoring Relationships in Graduate School (2001, background): “Furthermore, female mentors gave more psychosocial help to female prot´ eg´ es than to male prot´ eg´ es. Looking at data from 200 mentoring pairs across a number of firms, Sosik and Godshalk (2000) reported that male mentors provided instrumental help but not psychosocial help, even to male prot´”
Mentoring Relationships From the Perspective of the Mentor (2007, background): “However, it is interesting to note that in empirical studies, same-gender mentorships typically greatly outnumber cross-gender mentorships (e.g., Allen & Eby, 2003; Ragins & Cotton, 1999; Sosik & Godshalk, 2000 ).”
GENDER, ETHNICITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND RISK: MENTORING AND THE CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES (2006, result): “…that men and women actually receive (see O’Neill, Horton, & Crosby, 1999, for a review), whereas other studies found that female–female mentoring relationships offer a greater level of friendship, counseling, personal support, and sponsorship than other gender combinations (Sosik & Godshalk, 2000).”
Benevolent Sexism at Work (2012, background): “Research examining general forms of support suggests that women may receive less support than men in organizations (McGuire, 1999; Sosik & Godshalk, 2000).”
Who Is a Mentor? A Review of Evolving Definitions and Implications for Research (2011, background): “The use of the phrase “deliberate pairing” could also be construed as implying a formal relationship (Sosik & Godshalk, 2000).”
Aiming for Career Success: The Role of Learning Goal Orientation in Mentoring Relationships. (2003, background): “In fact, such intellectually stimulating and intrinsically motivating behavior displayed by mentors has been linked to mentoring functions received by prot eg es (Sosik & Godshalk, 2000).”