So I thought about this for a while and
Quote:
Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
One quick tip for recruiting female mentors: Don't recruit female mentors, recruit mentors.
|
I feel the need to be a little defensive, I apologize if I misunderstood.
Quote:
|
I'm not saying you can't ask women to be mentors or recruit them more heavily. I am saying that you should find value in your female mentors beyond their gender.
|
I think I wasn't very thorough in my initial statement. I don't see that gender is the only value in female mentors, but I do think it is a value of female mentors. Perhaps we may have a disagreement as to the priority of that value, it's not currently high for me, but I could see it being high. So my question was really aimed at developing strategies when there's a time or for others where that value is high.