"Otherwise, apprenticeship can quietly become another way of reproducing the same hierarchy of values, complete with its blind spots."
Dashper examines how a mentoring program intended to support women's career development can simultaneously reproduce established assumptions about professional success. Interviews with mentors and mentees reveal how prevailing organizational values can remain unchallenged even within initiatives designed to empower participants. The research supports the argument that mentoring must leave room to question inherited standards rather than merely transmit them. The article first appeared online in 2018 and in the 2019 journal volume.
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