“…This includes men's greater tendency for self-promotion, overconfidence and exaggerating their competence, which helps elevate many unqualified men to positions of power (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2019). To the extent men, more than women, prefer to socialize in larger same-sex groups (Low, 1992;David-Barrett et al, 2015;Benenson, 2019;Peperkoorn et al, 2020) and to build larger social networks comprised of many "weak" ties (Vigil, 2007;Seabright, 2012;Friebel et al, 2017), men may be unduly privileged in the pursuit of leadership, particularly in the mixed gender hierarchies of large organizations (van Vugt and Spisak, 2008;Cullen-Lester et al, 2016;Lindenlaub and Prummer, 2020). Effects of social networking on gender differences in leadership are exacerbated when leaders tend to be male and leaders in general prefer to hire and promote similar others (i.e., the "old boys network") (McDonald, 2011;Koch et al, 2015).…”