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How to Navigate Mentorship in Hostile Environments

I am the only woman partner at our consulting firm and younger women keep asking me for mentorship but I barely survived the boys club culture myself and I do not know how to help them without hurting my own position.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your hard-won position requires you to perpetuate the same exclusionary dynamics that made your own advancement so difficult.

Ideas that help explain it
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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.