Maintenance And Reproduction Of Female Occupational Status Attainment Of Social Networks

During the transition period, the sex bias of our labor market is more and more serious. It makes social networks been important to occupational status attainment of the female. The thesis attempted to analyze the relation composition and type of the female social networks from the perspective of maintains of social networks. Blood relationship and good friends are the strong ties of the occupational female; workmates and classmates are the medium ties of them; far relatives, acquaintance and neighbors are the weak ties of them. The different strength ties have different influence on occupational status attainment on female. Theoretically, medium ties are the most useful to promote the female occupation position. Weak ties are the second order. But in fact, female usually neglect to maintain the medium ties and weak ties. They seldom make use of the medium ties and weak ties during the occupational status attainment period. Women pay more attention to maintain medium ties and weak ties, their occupation position are higher. The sex constitution of female's networks is very important to their occupational status attainment. Usually, a female's occupational status is higher, the males she knows are more. But the marriage affects women to maintain and expand their male networks. These characteristics make women's social networks very small, which can help women validly in the period of occupational status attainment. How to expand the valid networks is very important to women. But because of restriction of social roles, the female pay little attention to maintain and reproduction networks, and their can hardly expand the valid networks. Women's occupational status are higher, they pay more attention to medium ties and weak ties. Their maintenance behaviors contain certain toolcharacteristic. So, if women want to promote occupational status, they should maintain medium ties and weak ties, and reproduce the valid networks. Then, besides social capital, the factors, which can affect the female's occupational status attainment, are plenty more. Female should study hard. The government also should pay more attention to female's occupational status attainment, perfects the labor force market quickly, and grows the healthy market system.