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Gender Salience in Women’s Career-Related Networking : Interviews with Russian Women. / Kazantseva, Tatiana ; Mararitsa, Larisa ; Gurieva, Svetlana .
Networks in the Global World V - Proceedings of NetGloW 2020: Proceedings of NetGloW 2020. ed. / Artem Antonyuk; Nikita Basov. Springer Nature, 2021. p. 34-48 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 181).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Gender Salience in Women’s Career-Related Networking
T2 - 5th Networks in the Global World Conference, NetGloW 2020
AU - Kazantseva, Tatiana
AU - Mararitsa, Larisa
AU - Gurieva, Svetlana
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Networking is closely related to personal social capital and, in turn, career outcomes. Stable reproduction of gender inequality in organizations is largely connected to career-related networking opportunities and constraints both for men and women, and this area remains under-researched. In this study we tested the hypothesis that women perceive female gender as a significant constraint in their career development. Also, we tried to find specific situations in work relationships which make networking difficult for women. The main method was qualitative analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews with working women (mean age 33 years old). The pilot study revealed that women were not willing to support “feministic talks” and could hardly recall any difficult gender-related work relationships. We found a facilitating technique through visualizing their career paths, which resulted in spontaneous flashbacks. 57% of the respondents had experienced reminders about gender from co-workers. The reality of the “gender factor” in their professional networking was encountered by women as an unpleasant discovery accompanied with feelings of powerlessness and shame. Negative or humorous gendered interactions (used mostly by men) serve for psychological distance regulation and instrumental aims, setting gender subordination and power. Situations which make networking difficult include explicit or implicit notifications from colleagues that feminine gender is an obstacle for productive work and implies certain restrictions and requirements, motherhood (expected or actual), and sexual interest from male colleagues. We concluded that women assess gender as a visible and at the same time invisible variable affecting their career. There are a number of situations which make career networking constrained for women.
AB - Networking is closely related to personal social capital and, in turn, career outcomes. Stable reproduction of gender inequality in organizations is largely connected to career-related networking opportunities and constraints both for men and women, and this area remains under-researched. In this study we tested the hypothesis that women perceive female gender as a significant constraint in their career development. Also, we tried to find specific situations in work relationships which make networking difficult for women. The main method was qualitative analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews with working women (mean age 33 years old). The pilot study revealed that women were not willing to support “feministic talks” and could hardly recall any difficult gender-related work relationships. We found a facilitating technique through visualizing their career paths, which resulted in spontaneous flashbacks. 57% of the respondents had experienced reminders about gender from co-workers. The reality of the “gender factor” in their professional networking was encountered by women as an unpleasant discovery accompanied with feelings of powerlessness and shame. Negative or humorous gendered interactions (used mostly by men) serve for psychological distance regulation and instrumental aims, setting gender subordination and power. Situations which make networking difficult include explicit or implicit notifications from colleagues that feminine gender is an obstacle for productive work and implies certain restrictions and requirements, motherhood (expected or actual), and sexual interest from male colleagues. We concluded that women assess gender as a visible and at the same time invisible variable affecting their career. There are a number of situations which make career networking constrained for women.
KW - Gendered networking
KW - Gender inequality
KW - Gender reminders
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-64877-0_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-64877-0_3
M3 - Conference contribution
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SN - 9783030648763
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 34
EP - 48
BT - Networks in the Global World V - Proceedings of NetGloW 2020
A2 - Antonyuk, Artem
A2 - Basov, Nikita
PB - Springer Nature
Y2 - 7 July 2020 through 9 July 2020
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