Abstract
We meta-analytically review studies on gender difference in people’s occupancy of central positions in organizational social networks. Drawing upon the human capital perspective of network formation, we examine the potential disadvantages (or advantage) for women to have less (or more) central positions than men and the moderating role of education in reducing such gender differences. Results based on 111 independent samples (N = 17,972) reveal that women have higher in-degree and closeness centrality in organizational expressive networks, and higher out-degree and closeness centrality in organizational instrumental networks. Further, gender differences in brokerage position and eigenvector centrality in both expressive and instrumental networks were moderated by women’s education (as compared to men’s as a group), such that women’s disadvantages of occupying central networks positions were mitigated by their better education. Our study sheds important light on gender stratification in informal structures...
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