Mentoring Revisited: The Black woman's experience

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of the mentor relationship from the perspective of the Black woman. Fourteen professional Black women participated in the study. A qualitative approach was used for the collection and analysis of the data. Participants indicated that mentoring was very important to their career development but also difficult in many of their organizations. This difficulty was attributed by these women to stereotypes and racism that affect Black women. Several of the women in the study indicated that groups they belonged to provide a mentoring function.