Why mentoring for women?

Historically, women have had less access to mentors and mentoring relationships. Research on women and mentoring suggests that this is because those senior enough to take on the mentoring role have traditionally been men and they have been more likely to choose younger men to mentor. Additionally, matches between senior men and junior female colleagues may not provide the sort of support needed as women often face different sorts of career issues to men (Quinlan, 1999).