Creating Women's Networks: A How-To Guide for Women and Companies

If your company doesn't have a women's network, it should. Such networks have proven invaluable to women looking to get ahead at work and to companies looking to enlist, retain, and advance the most talented people possible. But exactly how can you go about starting a women's network or improving one already in existence? Working with women's networks from all regions and industries for fifteen years, Catalyst has become the nation's premier clearinghouse for information and advice on the subject. And with this book, Catalyst makes its much-sought-after expertise available to people everywhere. Here, individuals will find step-by-step, hands-on instructions for creating a network of their own and for increasing the success of networks already in place. Companies will discover what women's networks are all about, how they improve the working environment, and how they contribute to the bottom line.