{"id":3026,"date":"2018-01-12T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2018-01-04T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:22:30","slug":"women-in-tech-are-more-likely-to-have-a-mentor-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-in-tech-are-more-likely-to-have-a-mentor-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Tech Are More Likely to Have a Mentor at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women in tech are more likely than men in tech to have a mentor at work, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 workers across the technology industry participated in the study.<\/p>\n<p><b>A closer look<\/b><\/p>\n<p>About 34% of women in tech say they have a mentor vs. 29% of men in tech, according to the data.\u00a0In industries outside of tech, men are more likely to say they have a mentor (34% men vs. 32% women).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tech<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3029 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/TCH1.jpg\" alt=\"TCH1\" width=\"482\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/TCH1-300x33.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/TCH1.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 85vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Non-tech<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3035 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/NONTECH.jpg\" alt=\"NONTECH\" width=\"484\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/NONTECH-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/NONTECH.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 85vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>From a diversity perspective<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-three percent of Hispanic\/Latino workers in tech say they have a mentor, followed next by 31% of African Americans, and 30% of Caucasians, Asians\/Pacific Islanders, and &#8220;Other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3030 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/diversity.jpg\" alt=\"diversity\" width=\"489\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/diversity-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/diversity.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 85vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>For the young<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The data confirms that the percentage of people who have a mentor declines steadily after age 25.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/MENTORAGE.jpg\" alt=\"MENTORAGE\" width=\"428\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/MENTORAGE-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/MENTORAGE.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 85vw, 428px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Jan. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in tech are more likely than men in tech to have a mentor at work, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 workers across the technology industry participated in the study. A closer look About 34% of women in tech say they have a mentor vs. 29% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-in-tech-are-more-likely-to-have-a-mentor-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}