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Having A Girl Squad Could Be The Key To Getting Ahead At Work

*Calls Sharon from finance* - by Lucy Bode
  • 28 Aug 2019
Having A Girl Squad Could Be The Key To Getting Ahead At Work

Here’s some career advice you probably weren’t expecting: prioritising your friendships could be what you need to succeed.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University analysed the social circles of 700 former graduate students of both genders, who had all attended a top tier business school and currently held a leadership position. In particular, they were looking for consistencies in size, gender proportion and the strength of each connection.

Curiously, they found that more than 75 per cent of women who held high-ranking roles in the office had predominately same-sex friendship groups and just two to three besties.

RELATED: 5 Reasons Why Female Friendships Are Vital For Your Health

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On the other hand, men with larger networks (regardless of what gender) were more likely to have climbed the corporate ladder.

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The findings also showed that having the ‘best-connected’ people as mates, didn’t necessarily influence the participants’ standing at work - although it did help with job searching and negotiations.

“Although both genders benefit from developing large social networks after graduate school, women’s communication patterns, as well as the gender composition of their network, significantly predict their job placement level,” Nitesh V. Chawla, co-author of the study explained in a statement.

“We also saw that inner circles benefit from each other, suggesting that women gain gender-specific private information and support from their inner circle, while non-overlapping connections provide other job market details.”

Sounds like as good a reason as any to get the gang together.

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Lucy is Women Health’s digital editor, social media specialist and the go-to girl for all things holistic wellness. Her background as a journalist and passion for food, fitness and integrative medicine has led her to write for some of Australia’s leading publications over the course of her career.

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