Eve on Top

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Mentoring, role models and networking

Women need to be encouraged … to move on and up. (Bella)

Success for me … it’s more about how people relate to me and trust me and feel that I’m a good mentor. (Carrie)

Over the course of my career … networking has been quite important; being able to make use of people on the way up. (Gill)

Introduction

An important part of professional development and career progression for the women involved in this study relates to mentoring and role models (see, for example, Monserrat et al., 2009), though it is not without its difficulties (Morgan and Davidson, 2008). This chapter looks at the ways in which the women have been mentored and supported in their work and the kinds of people that have provided them ...