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Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review

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  • Merylin Cross
  • Simone Lee
  • Heather Bridgman
  • Deependra Kaji Thapa
  • Michelle Cleary
  • Rachel Kornhaber

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This integrative literature review synthesizes the primary research evidence on mentoring female health academics published from 2000 to 2018, to identify the benefits, enablers and barriers to mentoring women. The need for this review is underpinned by the magnitude of change in higher education, the high number of women in health disciplines, limited progress in advancing women’s academic careers, escalating role expectations, faculty shortages and staff turnover. Data were sourced from Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Twenty-seven studies were included. Although effective mentoring facilitates personal and career development, academic craftsmanship, psychosocial support and job satisfaction, it is complicated by organizational factors and personal and relational dynamics. Enablers of mentoring are mentor availability and expertise, supportive relationships, mutuality and responsiveness. Lack of, or inadequate mentoring compromise women’s job satisfaction, career development and academic productivity. Providing female health academics access to experienced, well-connected mentors with common interests who are committed to advancing their career, is an investment in optimizing potential, promoting supportive work environments and increasing productivity and retention. Realizing the institutional potential that mentoring female health academics offers, is contingent on academic leaders valuing mentorship as faculty business and understanding the role that the contemporary academic environment plays in achieving mentoring outcomes. Further empirical and longitudinal research is needed to evaluate effective approaches for mentoring women in the contemporary academic environment.

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  • Merylin Cross & Simone Lee & Heather Bridgman & Deependra Kaji Thapa & Michelle Cleary & Rachel Kornhaber, 2019. "Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(4), pages 1-21, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0215319
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215319
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    1. Żuchowski Ireneusz & Casalino Nunzio & Murat Bartosz, 2022. "Experience of academic staff in mentoring programs," International Journal of Management and Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of World Economy, vol. 58(3), pages 316-330, September.
    2. Lynda B. Ransdell & Taylor S. Lane & Anna L. Schwartz & Heidi A. Wayment & Julie A. Baldwin, 2021. "Mentoring New and Early-Stage Investigators and Underrepresented Minority Faculty for Research Success in Health-Related Fields: An Integrative Literature Review (2010–2020)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(2), pages 1-35, January.

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