Handbook for Women Mentors

Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity

AvCarole A. Rayburn Ph.D.,Florence L. Denmark

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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This perceptive and practical guide explores the growing phenomenon of successful women serving as mentors to other women in academia or in professional careers.In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of women helping women via a method that has become a "hot-button" topic nationwide—mentoring.In A Handbook for Women Mentors: Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity, an expert author team—all experienced mentors—provide specific strategies for women mentoring women, showing how mentoring relationships benefit individuals, women as a group, and the nation as a whole. Discussions include ongoing challenges—and potential pitfalls—for women confronting obstacles in their education and professional careers, with special attention to minority women—whether it is a mother of four leading a university department, an African American woman working in engineering, or a Latina female advancing in the field of math.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-22
Mått:156 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313366253

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Personlig utveckling inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Carole A. Rayburn, PhD, is a clinical, research, and consulting psychologist in private practice, coeditor of Praeger's WomanSoul: The Inner Life of Women's Spirituality, and coauthor of 19 copyrighted psychological inventories. Florence L. Denmark, PhD, is the Robert Scott Pace Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Pace University, New York, NY. Mary E. Reuder, PhD, is professor emerita of City University of New York, Queens College, APA fellow of five divisions, and past president simultaneously of the APA Division of the Psychology of Religion and of the APA Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Asuncion Miteria Austria, PhD, is professor of psychology and chair and director of clinical training of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword, Bonnie R. StricklandIntroduction, Carole A. Rayburn, Florence L. Denmark, Mary E. Reuder, and Asuncion Miteria AustriaPART I: HISTORY OF WOMEN MENTORS1. Women Mentors and Their Effect on Educational and Professional Career DevelopmentFlorence L. Denmark and Maria D. KlaraPART II: WOMEN IN NONTRADITIONAL CAREERS, ACADEME, AND BUSINESS2. Gender Issues in Academic Mentoring: Personal Experiences Set in a Theoretical FrameworkJudith Waters3. Mentoring Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics FieldsBianca L. Bernstein, Ryan Jacobson, and Nancy Felipe Russo4. Mentoring Undergraduate WomenJoan C. Chrisler and Jennifer Gorman Rose5. Promises and Pitfalls of Mentoring Women in Business and AcademiaMichele Paludi, Jennifer Martin, Tina Stern, and Darlene C. DeFour6. Service Learning as a Model for Mentoring WomenArvilla Payne-Jackson, Kathleen Scott, Ajeenah Haynes, and Germon MillerPART III: FOCUS ON WOMEN OF COLOR7. Enhancing Capabilities of Women and Ethnic MinoritiesAsuncion Miteria Austria and A. Marie M. Austria8. Mentoring Asian American WomenReiko Homma-True9. Madrinas, Comadres, and Luminarias: Latina Mentors in ActionLillian Comas-Diaz10. Women of Color as MentorsMelba J. T. Vasquez and Jessica Henderson DanielPART IV: MENTORING FOR ALL WOMEN11. A Mentor—A Friend in DeedMary E. Reuder12. Mentoring Needs of EVERYWOMAN: The Accidental Mentor and BeyondCarole A. Rayburn13. Perspectives from a Nontraditional MentorHelen D. Pratt14. Beyond Mentoring: Opening Doors and SystemsShari E. Miles-Cohen, Gwendolyn Puryear Keita, Gabriel H. J. Twose, and Susan J. HoustonPART V: MENTORING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MENTAL HEALTH15. The Road to Leadership RolesJean Lau Chin16. A Social Psychological Approach to MentoringJanet Sigal and Katharine L. LoebPART VI: CONCLUSION17. ConclusionCarole A. Rayburn, Florence L. Denmark, Mary E. Reuder, and Asuncion Miteria AustriaIndexAbout the Volume Editors and Series EditorAbout the Contributors