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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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A meta-analysis of disclosure of one's HIV-positive status, stigma and social support
TL;DR: An analysis of the relationships among perceived stigma, reported disclosure and perceived social support for those living with HIV showed a positive, heterogeneous correlation between disclosure and social support and a negative, homogenous correlation between stigma and disclosure.
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Web-Based Network Sampling: Efficiency and Efficacy of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Online Research
TL;DR: Web-based RDS (WebRDS) is found to be highly efficient and effective and methods for testing the validity of assumptions required by RDS estimation are presented.
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What the numbers tell: The impact of human, family and financial capital on women and men's entry into entrepreneurship in Turkey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relative importance of three types of capital (human, family and financial) in pursuing entrepreneurship and found that regardless of sex, all three forms of capital influence the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur in varying degrees.
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Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010:
TL;DR: This paper analyzed career survival models and interaction effects between gender and different measures of social capital and information openness and found that female actors have a higher risk of career failure than do their male colleagues when affiliated in cohesive networks, but women have better survival chances when embedded in open, diverse structures.
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Independence Through Social Networks: Bridging Potential Among Older Women and Men
TL;DR: Gender differences in the extent to which older adults maintain a related, but distinct, form of social capital-bridging potential, which involves serving as a tie between two unconnected parties and thus boosts independence and control of everyday social life are documents.
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Gender, work stress, and health
Debra L. Nelson,Ronald J. Burke +1 more
TL;DR: A Framework for Examining Gender, Work Stress, and Health-Debra L. Nelson and Ronald J. Burke Managerial Stress: Are women more at risk? -Sandra L. Greenglass Do Men and Women Benefit from Social Support Equally? A Field Examination within the Work and Family Context-Pamela L. Perrewe and Dawn S. Carlson The Allocation of Time to Work and family Roles-Jeffrey Greenhaus and Saroj Parasuraman Gender Assymetry in Cross-Over Research-Mina Westman Reduced Workload Arrangements for Man
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Confirming Gender Stereotypes: A Social Role Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether emotional vulnerability leads women and men to confirm gender stereotypes and found that emotional vulnerability is a state where one is open to having one's feelings hurt or to experiencing rejection.
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Network Characteristics: Variation in Social Support Resources1
Karen Pugliesi,Scott L. Shook +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the effects of gender, ethnicity, other social statuses, and role configurations on informal social network characteristics in an analysis of a U.S. sample of adults, of which 14% are ethnic/racial minorities.
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Women's participation in the labor force: the role of social networks
TL;DR: It is found that the greater the quality and diversity of the social resources available through a woman's social network, the more likely she is to be working for pay.
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Enhancing Mentoring and Networking of Junior Academic Women: what, why, and how?
TL;DR: There is a variety of career-supportive relationships that provide career guidance and psycho-social support vital to career success as mentioned in this paper and each person's network contains a range of different types of relationships and contacts that serve different purposes.