Mentorship has been identified as a vital process to career advancement. This phenomenological study consisted of in-depth interviews with women who are at the time of this study mid-level administrators in higher education who are engaged or have been engaged as a mentee and are currently or have been mentored. Using Supervisory Career Mentoring and transformational leadership as conceptual frameworks, I examined female mid-level administrators' perceptions of mentoring, leadership, and being mentored. The participants were mentors to faculty members working in higher education. My guiding research question was, "What are female mid-level managers' perceptions of mentoring, leadership, and being mentored?". [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]