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Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom Chair (since 2005)

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My passion in research is to create so4ware engineering knowledge that makes so4ware be:er, smarter, and more sustainable.

A Mentor is an experienced and trusted adviser. Everybody should have one, at any stage of his or her career. Chosen carefully.

Mentoring systems are designed to promote professional development by linking an employee with a mentor who will focus on the overall development of that mentee. Mentoring is transforma@onal and involves much more than simply acquiring a specific skill or knowledge. Mentoring is about a rela@onship and involves both the professional and the personal.

Mentoring defined

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•  Dutch and EU perspec@ves

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• Changes in society

• Does mentoring work?

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• Lessons learned

A Dutch Perspective

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A Dutch Perspective: academic career

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A European Perspective: academic career Data:SheFigures2015,p.130(EuropeanCommission)

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A European Perspective: it starts in school Data:TrendAnalysisGenderinHigherEducaSon–STEM,2015(VHTO)

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The ugly truth

DorianGray(2009),themoSonpicture

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Implicit biases implicit.harvard.edu

Uniformity à cloning

A:ract ≠ Retain

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The ugly truth

Societal ma:ers feel personal “To become professor someone has to be excellent” “Can’t define, but if I see excellence I will recognize it”

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The opportunities

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Awareness

Mechanisms in all sectors

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The opportunities

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Awareness

Mechanisms in all sectors

Diversity goals as part of own

career path (CV)

Include diversity in own research

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Dr. Maryam Razavian (TU/e) Prof. dr. Patricia Lago (VU) appearing in July/August 2016

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Survey VU Mentoring Network (2015/2016): Reflection on your Mentoring Experience

•  All Facul@es, 45 mentors, 14 responses (4 women, 9 men, 1 removed with no experience yet)

•  Mentors: advised between 1 and 5 mentees •  All 4 women mentors advised exclusively women •  Mentees popula@on: 21 women and 4 men

OBSERVATIONS

Does gender play a role in your mentoring process/advise?

•  5 yes, 5 no, 3 neutral •  Most men say NO •  All women say YES

+ Differences can be discussed without having a stake

+ Similar experience and struggles

Would your mentoring change if mentee would be of the same or a different gender? If so, how?

•  Some negate gender bias •  Women seem more

neutral, advises more focused

•  Insecurities •  Poorer career opportunities

•  Balancing work an family •  Topics are different •  (both genders) focus on

scientific output and academic reputation

Would two mentors with different genders help?

•  3 (women) yes •  Only women (who

mentored women so far) seem to appreciate the value

•  Note: nobody mentioned the risk of getting conflicting advises

•  Too many, inefficient (time, capacity)

•  Not helpful

•  Overkill + mentees get different perspectives + mentors learn from each other

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Reflection on your Mentoring Experience: Survey VU Mentoring Network (2015/2016)

Anything to add? It seems obvious that there are differences between a same-sex or a different-sex mentor rela@onship - in its dynamics more than in substan@al issues (career doubts and privacy-work dilemmas are also very present among men and it may even be useful for women to become aware of that). It is however important that mentees can express their preferences, also depending on their main concerns, and that they feel free to ‘thema@se’ the issue whenever they think they need to do so, either with their mentor or with the mentoring coordinator. “There should be a fit between mentor and mentee regarding the topics of mentoring. A mentor's exper@se in educa@on, science and management, should fit with the mentee's wishes regarding the mentoring trajectory. “

Negation of implicit biases!

Careful choice!

Careful match-making!

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Reflection on your Mentoring Experience: my (female) mentee

Added value: forced me to think about what I want, and to step up “I did things that would never have occurred to me otherwise”

Good idea to have both man and women, to also have a male perspec@ve

“I showed CV to a male colleague too, but he was less cri@cal” Maybe a woman helps more

“Do not know, maybe because I feel more comfortable”

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Change needs time, people need even more time

Until 1956 a married woman could work only with the permission of her husband

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What should we keep?

Networks Coaching Mentoring Add-value to be successful

Match mentor-mentee (both contents and diversity reqs)

Facilitate step toward long-las@ng mentoring

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Help to overcome social isola@on

Involve both genders in program (incl. decision makers)

Involve both genders in program

Create awareness of implicit biases (co-product injec@ng change in mentality)

Kick-start: iden@fy ambi@ons and weaknesses

Personal commitment

Rela@on of trust

We know we have a problem, now the solution …

Diversity in a no brainer, really

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