Why Male Mentors in the #MeToo Era Must “Engage More, Not Run for the Hills”
A few years ago, David M. Yousem thought nothing of having a closed-door mentoring session with a young female scientist. Now, he asks if she would be more comfortable with the door open or closed. A naturally effusive person, he knows better than to compliment a woman on her springlike attire or to offer a congratulatory hug for a paper that’s been accepted in a prestigious journal when a thumbs up will do. For Yousem, a professor of radiology at the Johns...
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