Thank you to Ranti for setting up the wiki page! Please post your name
to that page as others have started to do if you have any interest in
being involved with the mentorship program. It doesn't matter what your
gender is to participate, but if you have a preference for who you'd
like to be matched with, you can state it there and we'll do our best to
meet your wishes.
Mentee works for me, but The MIT program I referenced in an earlier
email uses the word "partner" instead. I changed it to that on the wiki
page to "partner", but if anyone has objections, we can hash it out on
the wiki page... not worth putting everyone on list through a labeling
debate.
-Shaun
On 12/7/12 9:54 AM, Joseph Montibello wrote:
Hi all,
I wouldn't want to crowd out women who are looking for this sort of
mentoring, but I (and other men) might be interested in being a mentee[1].
The flip side of MJ's logic (which I agree with) is that no men in the
pool of mentees means fewer opportunities for women to be mentors.
Just my two cents.
Joe Montibello, MLIS
Library Systems Manager
Dartmouth College Library
603.646.9394
joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
[1] dumb aside on the word mentee - from Wikipedia, "The person in receipt
of mentorship may be referred to as a protégé (male), a protégée (female),
an apprentice or, in recent years, a mentee." Protégé(é) appeals to me
more than mentee, but maybe that's because my brain jumps from mentee to
mentees to Mentos. I don't want to volunteer to be dropped into a bottle
of soda! Also, I don't have enough linguistics/language history to know if
protégée is a female derivative of the male form, which would probably be
undesirable.
On 12/7/12 8:52 AM, "MJ Ray" <m...@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Shaun Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu>
Hi Rosalyn,
I agree that we should encourage women to step up and mentor other
women
at Code4Lib. I also see the pairing of women mentors with women
mentees
as fitting into an overall mentorship program, and I would be
interested
in collaborating with you and others to help frame it out.
I think pairing would need to be done pretty carefully and I'm not
sure that only pairing women with women, for example, would be a good
thing.
Even ignoring my belief that it would be sexist, it could cause
practical problems by creating a feedback loop: fewer women in the
community probably means fewer women mentors available for women
learners, leading to slower promotion of women into the community.
Hope that explains,
--
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