Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
PLoS One. 2018 Nov 16;13(11):e0207337. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207337. eCollection 2018.
This paper examines how gender proportions at the workplace affect the extent to which individual networks support the career progress (i.e. time to promotion). Previous studies have argued that men and women benefit from different network structures. However, the empirical evidence about these differences has been contradictory or inconclusive at best. Combining social networks with tokenism, we show in a longitudinal academic study that gender-related differences in the way that networks affect career progress exist only in situations where women are in a token position. Our empirical results further show that women not in severely underrepresented situations benefit from the same network structure as men.
本文探讨了工作场所的性别比例如何影响个人网络对职业发展（即晋升时间）的支持程度。先前的研究表明，男性和女性从不同的网络结构中受益。然而，关于这些差异的经验证据最多也只是相互矛盾或没有定论。本文通过将社会网络和象征性结合起来，在一项纵向学术研究中表明，只有在女性处于象征性地位的情况下，网络对职业发展的影响才存在与性别相关的差异。我们的实证结果还表明，在女性没有严重代表性不足的情况下，她们受益于与男性相同的网络结构。
