How work-based learning connects students with mentors and experience - Andre M. Perry, Brookings

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” Notably, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners or men who had not achieved partnership status. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/10/17/how-work-based-learning-connects-students-with-mentors-and-experience/