When Men Mentor Women

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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David Smith, associate professor of sociology at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brad Johnson, professor of psychology at the United States Naval Academy, argue that it is vital for more men to mentor women in the workplace. In the post-#MeToo world, some men have shied away from cross-gender relationships at work. But Smith and Johnson say these relationships offer big gains to mentees, mentors, and organizations. They offer their advice on how men can be thoughtful allies to the women they work with. They are the authors of "Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women.”

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green-Carmichael. Over the past year the Me Too Movement has cost some powerful men their jobs in
0:50.0	industries like media entertainment and politics. Now we're starting to see a
0:54.8	backlash against that movement especially in male-dominated industries. Our
0:59.9	guests today have both worked in a very male-dominated industry, the military.
1:04.6	Our own experiences came into play here and watching how women in particular in the military
1:10.6	experienced the integration and certainly some of the inequities that go on in their
1:16.3	own lives and careers and one of the things that stuck out to us and we find it as
1:20.3	well in lots of organizations today across our society is that there are
1:25.6	lots of structural things are put in place when it comes to gender in the workplace
1:29.4	but often we don't talk to men about how those relationships should be managed, what they
1:35.2	should look like, and we felt that it was really important that we write something to
1:40.2	engage men in particular about what this should look like and how we can do this.
1:44.7	That gender inequities are not a women's issue.
1:47.3	This is something that really we reframe as a leadership issue.
1:50.9	That's David Smith.
1:52.0	He's an Associate Professor of Soci sociology at the U.S. Naval War College.
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