INNER WHEEL OR INNER SANCTUM: Gender and the Social Capital Debate

Social capital is a popular yet contested concept. Lack of gender focus in social capital literature highlights two problems for women. First, women to not get enough acknowledgement for their contributions to social capital. Second, women do not have equal access to the types of networks that bring economic advantage, which is evident in their inferior representations in civic and political activities. Reports on a study in regional Victoria, Australia, that utilized mixed methods to explore in detail women's access to bonding and bridging social capital and the consequences of this. (Quotes from original text)