{"id":4763,"date":"2018-09-11T17:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2018-09-11T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:12:31","slug":"women-are-more-likely-than-men-to-have-a-mentor-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-are-more-likely-than-men-to-have-a-mentor-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are More Likely Than Men to Have a Mentor at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of #MeToo, 34%\u00a0of women say they have a mentor at work, compared to 29% of men.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/24-do-you-have-a-mentor-at-work\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing survey<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparably<\/a> of more than 10,000 people across the technology industry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4765 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/women.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"491\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/women-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/women.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 85vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;other&#8221; had the lowest (30%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4766 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/ww.jpg\" alt=\"ww\" width=\"507\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/ww-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/ww.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 85vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4767 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"497\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/Capture-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/09\/Capture.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 85vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading of the survey is as of Sept. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the age of #MeToo, 34%\u00a0of women say they have a mentor at work, compared to 29% of men. That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an ongoing survey by Comparably of more than 10,000 people across the technology industry. The results show very slight differences between people of different ethnicities. People of Hispanic or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-are-more-likely-than-men-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":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65,8],"tags":[69,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}