The Harvard Business Review published an interesting article on mentoring recently that tries to explain why women with male mentors are challenged less than their male counterparts. The authors provide some helpful tools to make sure women mentees gain the necessary skills to grow in competitive and often male-dominated environments. You can read the article for yourself here: https://hbr.org/2017/05/et-yyt-how-some-male-mentors-fail-at-challenging-their-female-mentees