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    The role of social networks in enhancing women's career advancement: The case of women employees in International Non-Governmental Organizations in Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014-06) Nemera, Maliha; Zenebe, Mulumebet (PhD)
    De;pite the evident importance of social capital in enhancing human capacity, research on its gender dimension especially in promoting women 's access and benefit fi'om such capital is virtually non-existent. If done at ali, it tends to focus on its economic benefit of the entire community or socielies, but rarely on gender fi'om social capital perspective or its role as critical adjunct to women 's career development Among several social capital indicators, social networking is the basic indicator of social capital formalion. Thus, Ihis paper deals with social networking in relation to women's career advancemenl and hence assesses how social network impacts in eilher jclcilitating or constraining structural opportuni/ies for women's career advancements. In order to obtain data for the study through a mixed of research methods (quantitative and qualilative) 63 women and 39 men working for international nongovernmental organization were approached Besides, various documenls were reviewed 10 supplement data collected ji'om primwy sources and finally analyzed both qualitatively using narration and quanlitatively using fi'equency and percenlage. The analysis reveals Ihat gender plays a crucial role in the kinds of social capilalformalion. As a result, the types of social capital women and men lend to form is different in that women often tend 10 form bonding of social capital whereas men tend to form objective or bridging social capital. This enables men to get non redundant and high level information Ihan women. . In summary, inlhe workplace women rely more onformal networking and a/lach less valuefor workplace informal networking. And gender role socialization, gender stereotype and institutional systems are the major contributing jclctors for women's less participation in different social networking both al community and workplaces. Accordingly, the findings of this paper confirm that women have less networking experiences which ajJecls their career advancements.