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Does Mentor Support Increase Women's Career Advancement More than Men's? The Differential Effects of Career and Psychosocial Support

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  • Phyllis Tharenou

    (Division of Business and Enterprise, University of South Australia, City West Campus, North Terrace SA 5000.)

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Based on past research on mentoring, this study examined whether mentor career support helped women's career advancement more than it did men's, and more than psychosocial (emotional) support did. The sample of 3220 Australians, chiefly from the public sector and finance and business service industry, was surveyed twice, a year apart. Mentor career support increased women protégés' advancement more than it did men's, whereas psychosocial support generally reduced women's advancement more than it did men's. Unexpectedly, female mentors, not males, had the strongest effects, both helping and hindering their protégé's advancement. Mentor support was not related to men's advancement. Why mentoring was differently related to men's and women's advancement was discussed.

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  • Phyllis Tharenou, 2005. "Does Mentor Support Increase Women's Career Advancement More than Men's? The Differential Effects of Career and Psychosocial Support," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 30(1), pages 77-109, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ausman:v:30:y:2005:i:1:p:77-109
    DOI: 10.1177/031289620503000105
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    1. Hall, Matthew & Smith, David, 2009. "Mentoring and turnover intentions in public accounting firms: a research note," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 28924, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Dworkin, Terry Morehead & Maurer, Virginia & Schipani, Cindy A., 2012. "Career mentoring for women: New horizons/Expanded methods," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 55(4), pages 363-372.
    3. Inge Noback & Lourens Broersma & Jouke Dijk, 2016. "Climbing the Ladder: Gender-Specific Career Advancement in Financial Services and the Influence of Flexible Work-Time Arrangements," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 54(1), pages 114-135, March.
    4. Single, Louise & Donald, Stephen & Almer, Elizabeth, 2018. "The relationship of advocacy and mentorship with female accountants' career success," Advances in accounting, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 12-21.

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