Does network recruitment contribute to the glass ceiling? We use administrative data from
two companies to answer the question. In the presence of gender homophily, recruitment …

Current scholarship commonly posits that network recruitment contributes to job sex
segregation and that the segregated nature of personal contact networks explains this effect …

Brokerage in intra-organizational networks is critical to performance, but women exhibit less
brokerage in their social networks and receive lower performance returns to the brokerage …

Past studies of gender and hierarchy document that the proportion of women declines as
one looks up levels of the organizational hierarchy. With few exceptions, studies have …

In this article, I analyze survey data from more than 1,000 financial services employees to
understand how gender inequality manifests itself in employees' informal networks. I found …

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 …

We combine stylized facts from social network literature with findings from the literature on
the gender wage gap in a formal model. This model is based on employers' use of social …

With few exceptions, past research on the glass ceiling has assumed that the barriers to
women's advancement in organizations reflect sex differences in internal promotion …

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 …

We investigate the impact of professional networks on men's and women's earnings, using a
dataset of European and North American executives. The size of an individual's network of …