Quite similar to many of the posts I've seen above - last year, all of our veteran female team members were in leadership positions, including team captain, drive coach, and head of programming. Our team is recently about 25% female, but that fraction moves towards 50% at the leadership levels.
Despite a few attempts at targeted recruitment, all of our female mentors to date have been non-technical.
Edit (hopefully obviously):
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Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
Hopefully not derailing the thread here:
Some reasons I see things like this happening to females who are completely capable of mentoring in technical roles:
1) Someone believes that they are not as qualified to do/mentor X as someone else - this could be the lady in question or someone else on the team
2) They don't have the energy/don't care enough to "prove" that they can mentor X
3) The team needs mentors in the non-technical roles that the person either is pushed into or settles into (see 1 and 2)
and possibly relevant to your specific problem: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=14 |
We do recruit mentors with skills we need, regardless of gender. We get all three of your points above with male recruits as well; we have a mechanical PhD and a pneumatics tech/former electrician (both male) who are doing mostly non-technical functions the last year.