Career capital and the MBA: how gender capital supports career capital development

It is argued that women are held back in their efforts to achieve career advancement by inequitable opportunities acquire and leverage capital. Using capital theory, this empirically grounded investigation examines how female MBAs report increases knowing-how, knowing-whom knowing-why, relation male counterparts. Women significantly larger the knowing-why form of However, despite dominant rhetoric highlighting difficulties faced development maintenance powerful networks, we found no significant difference between genders terms reported knowing-whom. We contribute theory considering gender capital, drawn from feminist Boudieusian scholarship, interacts with theories social conclude within MBA program possessed serves support which they may then be able deploy broader domain business management. discuss implications for programs graduates prospective students.