The dynamics of women’s network relationships: the good, bad and reality Vongalis-Macrow, Athena 2013, The dynamics of women’s network relationships: the good, bad and reality, Organizational cultures: an international journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 49-61. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads vongalismacrow-dynamics-2013.pdf Published version application/pdf 427.57KB 211 Title The dynamics of women’s network relationships: the good, bad and reality Author(s) Vongalis-Macrow, Athena Journal name Organizational cultures: an international journal Volume number 12 Issue number 3 Start page 49 End page 61 Total pages 13 Publisher Common Ground Publishing Place of publication Altona, Vic. Publication date 2013 ISSN 2327-932X 2327-8013 Keyword(s) leadership networks women Summary The lack of women in leadership positions remains a persistent social phenomenon. The aim of the paper is to investigate how networking is connected to leadership aspirations and examine women’s understanding and practice of networking as a career developmental skill. Theoretical explanations around women’s lack of leadership has focused on women’s organisational constraints, their outsider status and the conditions of women within the broader community; however, what is mostly absent from research is how women’s relationships with each other influence opportunities for leadership. Women often experience the ‘glass ceiling’ at the mid-career level, therefore the research focussed on networking at the mid-career level in order to better understand how women draw on networking to help achieve their career goals. This paper responds to the persistent challenges that women face in networking by examining how networks are created, understood, and enacted by women. This paper reports on recent research that investigated how a select group of mid-career women understood and practiced networking. The paper discusses survey and interview data to analyse how women’s way of networking may influence career aspirations and identifies ways that women can strengthen their networking in order to build capacity and mobility for leadership. Language eng Field of Research 139999 Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2013, Common Ground Publishing Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30056826 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 16 Oct 2013, 14:05:53 EST Thu, 17 Oct 2013, 07:29:20 EST Mon, 21 Oct 2013, 11:44:26 EST Tue, 22 Oct 2013, 08:04:34 EST Tue, 22 Oct 2013, 14:23:10 EST Tue, 22 Oct 2013, 14:29:41 EST Tue, 22 Oct 2013, 15:26:43 EST Wed, 06 Nov 2013, 14:09:09 EST Mon, 11 Nov 2013, 10:59:05 EST Tue, 19 Nov 2013, 10:26:49 EST Tue, 19 Nov 2013, 10:27:37 EST Tue, 19 Nov 2013, 10:48:21 EST Mon, 25 Nov 2013, 08:58:18 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 21:41:24 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:43:05 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:41:52 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 295 Abstract Views, 211 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 16 Oct 2013, 14:05:39 EST by Athena Vongalis-macrow