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Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review
This integrative literature review synthesizes the primary research evidence on mentoring female health academics published from 2000 to 2018, to identify the benefits, enablers and barriers to mentoring women. The need for this review is underpinned by the magnitude of change in higher education, t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30998791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215319 |
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author | Cross, Merylin Lee, Simone Bridgman, Heather Thapa, Deependra Kaji Cleary, Michelle Kornhaber, Rachel |
author_facet | Cross, Merylin Lee, Simone Bridgman, Heather Thapa, Deependra Kaji Cleary, Michelle Kornhaber, Rachel |
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description | This integrative literature review synthesizes the primary research evidence on mentoring female health academics published from 2000 to 2018, to identify the benefits, enablers and barriers to mentoring women. The need for this review is underpinned by the magnitude of change in higher education, the high number of women in health disciplines, limited progress in advancing women’s academic careers, escalating role expectations, faculty shortages and staff turnover. Data were sourced from Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Twenty-seven studies were included. Although effective mentoring facilitates personal and career development, academic craftsmanship, psychosocial support and job satisfaction, it is complicated by organizational factors and personal and relational dynamics. Enablers of mentoring are mentor availability and expertise, supportive relationships, mutuality and responsiveness. Lack of, or inadequate mentoring compromise women’s job satisfaction, career development and academic productivity. Providing female health academics access to experienced, well-connected mentors with common interests who are committed to advancing their career, is an investment in optimizing potential, promoting supportive work environments and increasing productivity and retention. Realizing the institutional potential that mentoring female health academics offers, is contingent on academic leaders valuing mentorship as faculty business and understanding the role that the contemporary academic environment plays in achieving mentoring outcomes. Further empirical and longitudinal research is needed to evaluate effective approaches for mentoring women in the contemporary academic environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-64727522019-05-03 Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review Cross, Merylin Lee, Simone Bridgman, Heather Thapa, Deependra Kaji Cleary, Michelle Kornhaber, Rachel PLoS One Research Article This integrative literature review synthesizes the primary research evidence on mentoring female health academics published from 2000 to 2018, to identify the benefits, enablers and barriers to mentoring women. The need for this review is underpinned by the magnitude of change in higher education, the high number of women in health disciplines, limited progress in advancing women’s academic careers, escalating role expectations, faculty shortages and staff turnover. Data were sourced from Scopus, PubMed, EMBASE and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Twenty-seven studies were included. Although effective mentoring facilitates personal and career development, academic craftsmanship, psychosocial support and job satisfaction, it is complicated by organizational factors and personal and relational dynamics. Enablers of mentoring are mentor availability and expertise, supportive relationships, mutuality and responsiveness. Lack of, or inadequate mentoring compromise women’s job satisfaction, career development and academic productivity. Providing female health academics access to experienced, well-connected mentors with common interests who are committed to advancing their career, is an investment in optimizing potential, promoting supportive work environments and increasing productivity and retention. Realizing the institutional potential that mentoring female health academics offers, is contingent on academic leaders valuing mentorship as faculty business and understanding the role that the contemporary academic environment plays in achieving mentoring outcomes. Further empirical and longitudinal research is needed to evaluate effective approaches for mentoring women in the contemporary academic environment. Public Library of Science 2019-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6472752/ /pubmed/30998791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215319 Text en © 2019 Cross et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cross, Merylin Lee, Simone Bridgman, Heather Thapa, Deependra Kaji Cleary, Michelle Kornhaber, Rachel Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title | Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title_full | Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title_fullStr | Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title_full_unstemmed | Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title_short | Benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: An integrative review |
title_sort | benefits, barriers and enablers of mentoring female health academics: an integrative review |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30998791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215319 |
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