The same professional relationship is labeled networking for men but sexualized for women

Evidence

The relative stories I found all contained one trend: ambitious and often “troublesome” women who profited professionally by their involvement with established men of authority. Of course, had these stories involved the relationship between two men, one would always (well, almost always) have simply called it “networking.” With women, networking was recast as a pejorative and manipulative working of the system. And because there were ladies involved, the articles … emphasized their sexual appeal and activities with the men inquestion. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 699

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle on how the language of professional advancement is gendered differently inside startup culture versus, say, academic or military hierarchies.
• CANDY: The one-sentence punchline — men network, women sleep their way up — is a crisp, tweetable observation about media framing.
• XREF: connects to: Women face extra barriers to mentorship, and mixed-gender professional relationships get sexualized — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 698; Women’s tech accomplishments were routinely attributed to sexual relationships with men — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 703; Women’s sexual deviance threatens the collectivity while men’s is a peccadillo — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Women’s tech accomplishments were routinely attributed to sexual relationships with men #exemplifies (0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 703
• Women’s sexual deviance threatens the collectivity while men’s is a peccadillo #exemplifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 406
• Men assign women’s status to serve their own projects, not women’s interest #exemplifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 288