Impact of gender on the formation and outcome of formal mentoring relationships in the life sciences.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing representation in graduate training programs, a disproportionate number of women leave academic research without obtaining an independent position that enables them to train the next generation of academic researchers. To understand factors underlying this trend, we analyzed formal PhD and postdoctoral mentoring relationships in the life sciences during the years 2000 to 2020. Student and mentor gender are both associated with differences in rates of student's continuation to positions that allow formal academic mentorship. Although trainees of women mentors are less likely to take on positions as academic mentors than trainees of men mentors, this effect is reduced substantially after controlling for several measurements of mentor status. Thus, the effect of mentor gend

SUBMITTER: Schwartz LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9455859 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature