De;pite the evident importance of social capital in enhancing human capacity, research on itsrngender dimension especially in promoting women 's access and benefit fi'om such capital isrnvirtually non-existent. If done at ali, it tends to focus on its economic benefit of the entirerncommunity or socielies, but rarely on gender fi'om social capital perspective or its role asrncritical adjunct to women 's career developmentrnAmong several social capital indicators, social networking is the basic indicator of social capitalrnformalion. Thus, Ihis paper deals with social networking in relation to women's careerrnadvancemenl and hence assesses how social network impacts in eilher jclcilitating orrnconstraining structural opportuni/ies for women's career advancements.rnIn order to obtain data for the study through a mixed of research methods (quantitative andrnqualilative) 63 women and 39 men working for international nongovernmental organizationrnwere approached Besides, various documenls were reviewed 10 supplement data collected ji'omrnprimwy sources and finally analyzed both qualitatively using narration and quanlitatively usingrnfi'equency and percenlage.rnThe analysis reveals Ihat gender plays a crucial role in the kinds of social capilalformalion. Asrna result, the types of social capital women and men lend to form is different in that women oftenrntend 10 form bonding of social capital whereas men tend to form objective or bridging socialrncapital. This enables men to get non redundant and high level information Ihan women. .rnIn summary, inlhe workplace women rely more onformal networking and a/lach less valueforrnworkplace informal networking. And gender role socialization, gender stereotype andrninstitutional systems are the major contributing jclctors for women's less participation inrndifferent social networking both al community and workplaces. Accordingly, the findings of thisrnpaper confirm that women have less networking experiences which ajJecls their careerrnadvancements.