Mentors need not be older

"Having a role model is very important," says Dr. Paludi. Women today, unfortunately, have fewer role models than roles that they have to play in their lives.
A role model, in fact, can be any. You can even be role models for each other, notes Dr. Paludi. A mentor does not need to be older. Often they are someone from your age group. Influence in this case is reciprocal. "
Throughout life, you can have many role models.
In one of the studies, Dr. Paludi discovered that role models do not usually change with men since their childhood, but women change their role models every time they start to play a new role. "It's different people at different periods of their lives," she says.
Where do you find such "improvised" role models? You can find them in your office, or in the neighborhood, or among people in your profession, or in a support group where women with common interests meet. "By studying people who were aware of themselves as mentors, the researchers asked how they did it, that they began to play such a role," says Dr. Paludi. Most of them answered that this always happened on a subconscious level. "