Women mentees are not damsels in distress

The chances that you’ve seen the statue or a piece of art depicting Atlas, the muscled Titan of Greek mythology holding up the celestial heavens on his shoulder are quite high. However, the chances that you drew a parallel between this image and the role of a woman - at home, at work and in her many avatars as daughter, mother, caregiver, breadwinner, cook, grandmother, friend, confidant and more are probably lesser.