Gender-Informed Mentoring Strategies for Women Engineering Scholars: On Establishing a Caring Community

This 7-page paper, from Naomi C. Chesler and Mark A. Chesler, discusses a strategy to improve mentorship for female engineering scholars. The pair "explore the sociological literature on interpersonally- and institutionally- generated gender roles and dynamics that make the construction and maintenance of mentoring relationships especially difficult for women in male-dominated fields." The main issues faced by female scholars in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering are introduced and analyzed. This document may be downloaded in PDF file format.