Meryl Bushell PhD is Visiting Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She has many years of senior management experience in FTSE 100 organisations. She is an established and experienced non-executive Director and a strategic advisor to public and private sector bodies. Kim Hoque is Professor of Human Resource Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and is the Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He has published widely across the employment relations, human resource management and equality and diversity fields. He has worked closely in either an advisory or consultancy capacity with both public and private sector organisations, trade unions, government agencies, and Parliamentary bodies. Deborah Dean is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on equality issues in employment and the interrelation of legal, social, and culturalregulation of work. She has written reports for and given evidence on employment inequalities to policymakers in the European Commission and UK Parliament.

• Chapter 1: The ‘problem’ of women on corporate boards.- Chapter 2: Explaining the lack of women in the boardroom: social capital and networking.- Chapter 3: The role of social capital and networking in board selection processes.- Chapter 4: Human capital theory, preference theory, attribution theory and self-efficacy.- Chapter 5: Gender differences in social capital and networking.- Chapter 6: Are women less willing and able to leverage their social capital?.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusion.

Meryl Bushell PhD is Visiting Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She has many years of senior management experience in FTSE 100 organisations. She is an established and experienced non-executive Director and a strategic advisor to public and private sector bodies. Kim Hoque is Professor of Human Resource Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and is the Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He has published widely across the employment relations, human resource management and equality and diversity fields. He has worked closely in either an advisory or consultancy capacity with both public and private sector organisations, trade unions, government agencies, and Parliamentary bodies. Deborah Dean is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on equality issues in employment and the interrelation of legal, social, and culturalregulation of work. She has written reports for and given evidence on employment inequalities to policymakers in the European Commission and UK Parliament.

• Chapter 1: The ‘problem’ of women on corporate boards.- Chapter 2: Explaining the lack of women in the boardroom: social capital and networking.- Chapter 3: The role of social capital and networking in board selection processes.- Chapter 4: Human capital theory, preference theory, attribution theory and self-efficacy.- Chapter 5: Gender differences in social capital and networking.- Chapter 6: Are women less willing and able to leverage their social capital?.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusion.

Meryl Bushell PhD is Visiting Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She has many years of senior management experience in FTSE 100 organisations. She is an established and experienced non-executive Director and a strategic advisor to public and private sector bodies. Kim Hoque is Professor of Human Resource Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and is the Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He has published widely across the employment relations, human resource management and equality and diversity fields. He has worked closely in either an advisory or consultancy capacity with both public and private sector organisations, trade unions, government agencies, and Parliamentary bodies. Deborah Dean is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on equality issues in employment and the interrelation of legal, social, and culturalregulation of work. She has written reports for and given evidence on employment inequalities to policymakers in the European Commission and UK Parliament.

• Chapter 1: The ‘problem’ of women on corporate boards.- Chapter 2: Explaining the lack of women in the boardroom: social capital and networking.- Chapter 3: The role of social capital and networking in board selection processes.- Chapter 4: Human capital theory, preference theory, attribution theory and self-efficacy.- Chapter 5: Gender differences in social capital and networking.- Chapter 6: Are women less willing and able to leverage their social capital?.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusion.