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Mentors of the same gender are more beneficial to women rising up through leadership ranks, a development specialist says.

"It's probably a bit like in girls' schools, in that girls perform better in single-sex schools," says Bobbi Mahlab, the co-founder of not-for-profit career-building initiative, Mentor Walks.

Single-sex mentoring programs create space to target more specific barriers to development, such as imposter syndrome, she tells HR Daily...