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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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Incorporating multiple levels of analysis into occupational stress research
Paul D. Bliese,Steve M. Jex +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that incorporating a multi-level perspective in the study of occupational stress has theoretical as well as practical value.
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Research excellence and departmental climate in British universities
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between university departmental climate and research excellence rating and found that climate may be an outcome as much as a cause of rated effectiveness, at least in this context.
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Gender differences in the effects of coping assistance on the reduction of burnout in academic staff
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined gender differences in the effectiveness of five sources of coping assistance to reduce dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion among 403 female and 664 male academic staff of a Dutch university.
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Sex differences in explanations for career progress
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the prediction that there will be sex differences in how middle managers perceive promotion requirements, and that such differences will be influenced by societal expectations of gender appropriateness, in which women are expected to display communal (nurturing, interpersonally sensitive) and men agentic (independent, assertive and ambitious) qualities and behaviour.