The best mentor I have is totally focussed on my career achievements and happens to be male. I got lucky: he’s my husband, and I hasten to add I’m not remotely complacement about him or that.

Sponsor, mentor, cheerleader, soother-of-battle-wounds – whoever is tooting your horn who totally believes in you, cherish them. If it’s a man, and he inhabits your career universe, lavish the cherish thing.

Cherish is a word alien to the masculine career vocab, for the most part. Maybe we need to teach them how to speak. (With apologies to Professor Higgins).