Mentor status, occupational context, and protégé career outcomes: Differential returns for males and females

Career Breakthroughs of Women in Intercollegiate Athletic Administration: What is the Role of Mentoring?

“…More specifically, women in male-dominated organizations who also reported having male mentors reported higher levels of career satisfaction. Dougherty, Dreher, Arunachalam, and Wilbanks (2013) also explored cross-gender mentoring in male-and non-male-dominated occupational contexts. Women in male-dominated occupations who had a male mentor earned a considerably higher salary than women with a male mentor in a non-male-dominated occupation.…”

In the Company of Women: The Well-Being Consequences of Working with (and for) Other Women

“…In fact, while both male and female mentees experience career benefi ts from male mentors (Avery et al 2008 ;Dreher and Cox 1996 ), the benefi ts of a male mentor for female employees may be particularly potent. Dougherty et al ( 2013 ) found that the effect of a senior male mentor (i.e. a high status mentor) on mentee compensation was stronger for female mentees than it was for male mentees, especially for female mentees working in male-gendered occupations.…”

“…However, we also encourage researchers to explicitly cross levels of analysis to investigate how organization-level demography moderates relationships at the dyad-and individual-levels of analysis. For example, research suggests that the effects of mentor sex on female mentee wellbeing are different depending on the gender demography of the overall organization (Dougherty et al 2013 ). Gender differences in employee job satisfaction, career aspirations, performance, organizational commitment, and a host of other affective and behavioral outcomes may also be moderated by organization-level demography, because gender distributions in the organizational context make gender stereotypes more or less salient (Perry et al 1994 ).…”

Impact of mentoring relationship on career satisfaction of young college teachers - the moderating effect of the type of mentoring relationship and the gender of mentee

“…In general, young male teachers are believed to have more resources and opportunities than young female teachers to take the initiative to establish a relationship with experienced teachers and get their guidance and help (Kalev, 2009). Mentoring relationship, which helps to correct the inequalities of the past, is crucial for the career development of young female teachers (Wentling, 2003) and will especially benefit young female teachers (Clarke, 2011;Dougherty et al, 2013). In view of this concept, on the basis of the discussion of the impact of mentoring relationship on career satisfaction of young college teachers, this paper further explores whether the gender of young teachers will have a moderating effect on the relationship between them.…”