Empowerment Mitigates Gender Differences in Tertius Iungens Brokering

Tertius iungens brokering that brings together people who might not otherwise meet is crucial for organizational effectiveness. But we know little about whether and why women men differ in their propensity to engage this brokering. Our paper focuses on the origins mitigation of gender differences bring together. In study 1, showed Totterdell et al. (2008) propensity-to-join-others scale used 2 Obstfeld (2005) tertius overlapped only conceptually, but also empirically, these measures were distinct from mediation- separation-brokering propensities (Grosser 2019). 2, a natural experiment examine 876 identical 625 fraternal same-sex twins. We found was lower than men, although toward sociability terms making friends acquaintances men. women, relative largely affected by environmental influences, such as experience stereotyping discrimination, rather representing an inherited disposition. Moreover, between with respect mitigated empowered samples, well-educated or entrepreneurial individuals. research asks new questions how pressures empowerment affect social networking. Gender may be amenable through empowering practices include education experience.