A survey of 1,000 professional women found that one in five women has never had a professional mentor, and more than half have never had a female mentor. The survey, by networking site LinkedIn, found that while having a mentor is nearly universally beneficial to professional women, women who have not ever had one say they don’t because they’ve never found anyone suitable.
One writer thinks that this can be attributable to the fact that women are so picky and lazy. In reality, it’s easier to relate professionally to someone who shares your gender, and the data shows that when female mentors are to be had, women are interested in working with them, if they can muster the courage to ask.