Substantial research has documented challenges women experience building and
benefiting from networks to achieve career success. Yet fundamental questions remain …

In this article, we aim to address 2 important questions:(a) Are women less likely than men to
occupy network brokerage positions? And if so,(b) what mechanisms may explain their …

Purpose–The use of women's networks is emerging as one method of advancing women's
careers within organizations. However, the value of these networks has been questioned …

Networking behaviors are a potentially important factor driving gender differences in social
networks and contributing to the gender gap in career achievement, yet we know little about …

Many leaders today do not rise through the ranks but are recruited directly out of graduate
programs into leadership positions. We use a quasi-experiment and instrumental-variable …

This research uses the network-analytic concepts of homophily, tie strength, and range to
explore gender differences in characteristics of middle managers' information and career …

Social network researchers have shown that, compared to their effect on majority
employees, structural constraints can cause minority employees to end up in network …

Sociologists have long viewed the unfolding of a career as intimately tied to a patterned
series of relationships that gradually define a person's sense of self. While empirical findings …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to focus specifically on formal and informal networking
and their relationship with career satisfaction. It was expected that men would engage more …

The present study analyzed (a) gender differences in the gender composition (ie, the
proportion of male to female contacts) of professional support networks inside and outside …