independent women are married to more educated or affluent men and they make their own decisions and are in control of the business whereas hidden women have responsibility without control and they deal with the internal environment while their husbands deal with all external issues for hidden women business does not open networking opportunities the results of the study by blisson and rana show that informal social networks are more important to immigrant women than formal business networks and that the asian women viewed their gender culture and lack of confidence as barriers to participate in formal networking activities