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Increasing efforts to provide mentorship to female medical students and doctors aim to support career progression, increase representation of women in medical leadership, increase job opportunities, and provide psychosocial support and recognition. Mentorship arrangements are actively encouraged, strongly desired and beneficial for personal and professional success. However, the needs of women from diverse cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic backgrounds, and lived experiences are commonly failed by Western‐centric male‐dominant mentoring models. Acknowledging and addressing systemic barriers that impede women from minority backgrounds reaping the benefits and opportunities intended by these mentoring efforts may help improve program outcomes and success for all women in medicine.

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Authors: Pallavi Prathivadi and Naomi MacPherson

Article Type: Perspective