Mentoring Women of Color for Leadership: Do Barriers Exist?

 
 
 
 

Mentoring Women of Color for Leadership: Do Barriers Exist?

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dc.contributor.advisor Holloway, Elizabeth en_US
dc.contributor.author Jeffcoat, Sandra Yvonne en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-04-09T21:48:52Z
dc.date.available 2009-04-09T21:48:52Z
dc.date.created 2008 en_US
dc.date.issued 2009-04-09T21:48:52Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1220894689 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/103934
dc.description The number of women in the workforce is increasing, but they continue to hold few corporate leadership positions. Women are running into the glass ceiling, a ceiling that is thicker for Women of Color. The under-representation of women and minorities in leadership positions and the recognition of the business value of Diversity in this global economy have driven organizations to launch diversity programs and use mentoring as support for aspiring women leaders. Ragins and Cotton's 1991 research found that there were barriers for women who were looking to use mentoring as a tool for leadership development, but her participants were mainly White. In this age of diversity awareness, the question of whether similar barriers exist for Women of Color needs answering. Using factor analysis and hierarchical multiple regression analysis, this research built on Ragins and Cotton's original study to explore whether Women of Color perceive barriers in obtaining mentoring relationships for career development. It was found that Women of Color perceive three of the same barriers as those found in the Ragins and Cotton study, however, these women tended to disagree with many of the items found for these barriers. The electronic version of this dissertation is at Ohiolink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd. en_US
dc.format application/pdf en_US
dc.format 149p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
dc.rights Copyright and permissions information available at the source archive en_US
dc.subject working women en_US
dc.subject women of color en_US
dc.subject mentoring en_US
dc.subject leadership en_US
dc.subject minorities en_US
dc.subject African Americans en_US
dc.subject Hispanic Americans en_US
dc.subject Native Americans en_US
dc.subject Asian Americans en_US
dc.subject factor analysis en_US
dc.subject multiple regression analysis en_US
dc.subject barriers en_US
dc.title Mentoring Women of Color for Leadership: Do Barriers Exist? en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name PhD en_US
dc.degree.discipline Leadership and Change en_US
dc.degree.grantor Antioch University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Antioch University / OhioLINK en_US

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