Peer power: A women's peer-mentoring program at the workplace: example from the academia

Shelly Levy-Tzedek; Galia S Moran; Uri Alon; Neta Sal-Man

doi:10.15252/embr.201847246

Peer power: A women's peer-mentoring program at the workplace: example from the academia

EMBO Rep. 2018 Dec;19(12):e47246. doi: 10.15252/embr.201847246. Epub 2018 Nov 5.

Authors

Shelly Levy-Tzedek^{1

2

3}, Galia S Moran⁴, Uri Alon⁵, Neta Sal-Man⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Therapy, Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
² Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
³ Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ The Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁵ Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
⁶ The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

Abstract

Mentoring has been an efficient tool to help young PIs to deal with the challenges that come with establishing a research groups. Peer Mentoring is an alternative to “classical” mentoring that could benefit female scientists in particular.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Mentoring*
Mentors
Peer Group*
Research Personnel
Universities*
Women*