Women Are More Likely Than Men to Have a Mentor at Work

In the age of #MeToo, 34% of women say they have a mentor at work, compared to 29% of men.

That’s according to the latest reading of an ongoing survey by Comparably of more than 10,000 people across the technology industry.

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The results show very slight differences between people of different ethnicities. People of Hispanic or Latino descent had the highest rates of having a mentor at work (33%) while those who identified as Asian, Pacific Islander or “other” had the lowest (30%).

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From a department perspective, those in legal had the highest rates of saying they have a mentor at work (39%), followed next by those in executive roles and finance (37%). On the other end of the spectrum were those in IT, with 26% saying they have a mentor, followed next by those in admin at 28%.

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The latest reading of the survey is as of Sept. 11.

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