Web-based Mentoring: Challenging traditional models to increase women's access

Abstract

Mentoring relationships can support college students as they strive to develop a sense of career-related identity. However, many students, especially college women pursuing non-traditional careers such as those in the sciences, face barriers to mentoring. Advances in technology-supported mentoring have increased students' access to mentoring opportunities. Many technology-supported mentoring initiatives are designed with only the traditional dyadic mentoring model in mind, which is limiting. When an alternative networking mentoring model provides the conceptual framework for web-based programmes, new opportunities to gain access to mentoring become visible, and the benefits for mentors and students alike are extended and amplified. Caveats, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

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