PP factor 4:  women don't have access to the same networks as men do, especially networks that include people working at higher occupational or organisational levels.  It's what social capitalists call 'linking social capital' - the kind that links you in to people higher up the power hierarchy, in contrast to bonding SC (hooking up with people like you) or bridging SC  (connecting to people outside your own type, but not necessarily any higher up than you are). Demonstrating this is something other people have done in far greater detail than I have been able to do.  Herminia Ibarra did this over 20 years ago in an interesting paper on…