To Teach is to Learn: Overcoming Tokenism with Mentors
| Autor: | Jerome Adams, Stephen Grove, Robert F. Priest, Janice D. Yoder |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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Higher education
business.industry Process (engineering) 05 social sciences Professional development Tokenism 050109 social psychology Public relations Peer acceptance Gender Studies Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 050903 gender studies Pedagogy Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Situational ethics business Psychology General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychology of Women Quarterly. 9:119-131 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6402 0361-6843 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1985.tb00865.x |
| Popis: | Active mentors, persons who are not simply role models, have been shown to facilitate and enhance career growth, yet the token role of women entering traditionally masculine professions was shown to inhibit sponsorships. An analysis of a sample of exit interviews from the first women cadets to graduate from West Point revealed that the marginal peer acceptance of tokens within a competitive, somewhat constrained atmosphere discouraged the development of these sponsorships. If women plan to play sustained roles in the professions, they must actively sponsor other women. A first step in this process is to be aware of the situational pressures, noted in the present paper, that are directed against sponsorships within a token group. |
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