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Gender differences in the creation of different types of social capital : A multilevel study
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Men were shown to be more effective in creating hard social capital, but, unexpectedly, women were not found to be the emotional specialists they often are thought to be.About:
This article is published in Social Networks.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social mobility & Social status.read more
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Success of the African American Female Military Field Grade Officers in An Army Environment
TL;DR: Thompson et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a phenomenological study to understand the success factors of African American female field grade officers and found that the primary challenges reported by these women were being viewed negatively as leaders, feeling as if they had to choose between raising a family or continuing to serve while in the military, feeling unable to be as competitive as her male counterparts for promotions for certain military commands, and struggling to overcome the stereotypes that still exist.
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Developing women entrepreneurs: the influence of enactus networks on women- owned SMMEs in Kwa Zulu-Natal
TL;DR: A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Commerce in Business Management in the Department of Business Management at the University Of Zululand, 2018 as mentioned in this paper.
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Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps.
TL;DR: This article found that differences in network structure explain as much as 15% of the overall gender wage gap, driven by gender differences in the number of males among closest friends, while other social capital measures used in this study hardly matter.
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The strong, the weak and the meaningful: Do friends or acquaintances help us get "any" job, or "meaningful" work?
TL;DR: For example, this article found that relatively distant ties (close acquaintances) and emotional support from friends are each associated with reduced chances of being an unemployed/discouraged worker, while strong ties are associated with better chances of a having a meaningful job.
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Gendering Social Capital and Population Health
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out that the gender dimension of social capital has been under-recognized in comparison with other demographic issues (e.g., women's empowerment).
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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The contingent value of social capital.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of an individual's social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work.
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Measuring organizational cultures: A qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study on organizational cultures in twenty units from ten different organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands, which came from in-depth interviews of selected informants and a questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of organizational members.
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is developed for conceptualizing the processes that occur between dominants and tokens, and three perceptual phenomena are associated with tokens: visibility, polarization, and assimilation, where tokens' attributes are distorted to fit preexisting generalizations about their social type.