Making Time for Mentoring — The Hidden ROI for Businesses

Reese Witherspoon at the Water for Elephants 2011 premier. Creative Commons license.

Why should busy professional women make time to mentor or be mentored? Why should competitive businesses allocate resources for an employee mentorship program?

It’s not just the pay gap. Forbes estimates the 2024 wage gap worldwide to be 77 cents to the dollar.¹ At this rate, the United Nations estimates that it will take a staggering 257 years to close that gap.²…