In light of pinpointing more
on my research development I conducted an Ngram Analysis. I established an
inquiry set for 1975-2008 (this was the latest year available to examine.)
Entering the words mentor, protégée, council, and mentoring gave me the
following results:
With another attempt to narrow
down my results, I decided to exempt the word council from my next analysis,
leaving me with the following graph:
In my belief this shows me that my topic was a stagnant
concept in the 1980’s, with development in the 1990’s, and a progressive
realization in the new millennium. As women’s rights developed so has the
concept of mentors and mentoring protégées.
Even though protégée is still not a common word, my topic
area trends more frequently than before. If you enter gender differences,
gender equality, and mentoring the following results are shown:
Like I stated before, it appears that my topic has grown and
trended with the development of women’s rights in the workplace beginning in the
1980’s.
The only question I really have about these graphs is what
would it have shown for the years 2008-2015?
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