ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 takes a closer look at how gender identity performance directly impacts investment mentoring at HealthTech Industries (HTI). Specifically, through HTI participants’ interviews, it is illustrated how mentoring can be a concrete way to measure an individual’s professional identity development in a specific job context and over the duration of their career. If work “has become the site where our very gender, once understood as the most essential element of our identities, may be so blatantly, publicly reconstituted, [then] work must also be the site where other essential transformations of selfhood can be and must be enacted.” The ways in which a person’s gender identity and their experiences with mentoring intersect can indicate the success and longevity of employee relationships. Indeed, HTI participants demonstrate in this chapter that workplace relationships affect their personal and community-based relationships, and vice versa.
