{"id":156,"date":"2016-03-29T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-03-30T03:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:03:11","slug":"how-women-vs-men-think-about-work-mentors-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/how-women-vs-men-think-about-work-mentors-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"How Women vs Men Think about Work Mentors &#038; Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with our compensation survey, we polled our users asking them &#8220;Do You Have a Mentor at Work&#8221; and &#8220;Do you have a close friend at work&#8221;. \u00a0A great deal of <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/07\/we-all-need-friends-at-work\">research shows<\/a> that people that have a best friend at work, tend to stay in those companies longer. \u00a0And I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/accelerators\/2013\/05\/24\/jason-nazar-the-secret-to-getting-and-keeping-mentors\/\">written extensively<\/a> about the value of mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Over 1000 people in tech responded to the data below. \u00a0In almost every job function, Women are more likely to answer &#8220;Yes&#8221;, they have a mentor at work, and 2Xs as many female vs male execs have mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Also fascinating is that in every case, more women report have a close friend at work, with one notable exception: Engineers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-152 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Mentor-at-work-infographic.png\" alt=\"Mentor-at-work-infographic\" width=\"700\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Mentor-at-work-infographic-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Mentor-at-work-infographic-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Mentor-at-work-infographic.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Friend-at-work-infographic.png\" alt=\"Friend-at-work-infographic\" width=\"700\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Friend-at-work-infographic-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Friend-at-work-infographic-664x1024.png 664w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2016\/03\/Friend-at-work-infographic.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with our compensation survey, we polled our users asking them &#8220;Do You Have a Mentor at Work&#8221; and &#8220;Do you have a close friend at work&#8221;. \u00a0A great deal of research shows that people that have a best friend at work, tend to stay in those companies longer. \u00a0And I&#8217;ve written extensively about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/how-women-vs-men-think-about-work-mentors-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[26,27,21,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}