The influence of gender ratios on academic careers: Combining social networks with tokenism

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 diff...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one Jg. 13; H. 11; S. e0207337
Hauptverfasser: Schoen, Constantin, Rost, Katja, Seidl, David
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Public Library of Science 16.11.2018
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Schlagworte:
Academic careers
Academic Success
Adult
Biology and Life Sciences
Business ethics
Career advancement
Careers
Computer and Information Sciences
Economics
Female
Gender
Gender differences
Humans
Hypotheses
Influence
Male
Medicine
Occupations
Researchers
Scientometrics
Sex differences
Sex Factors
Sex ratio
Sexism
Social capital
Social interactions
Social Networking
Social networks
Social organization
Social Sciences
Sociology
Studies
Tokenism
Women
Workplaces
United States > US
Switzerland
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0207337