Word: network
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There are in the Kennedy School of Government 330 students; the School's Institute of Politics actively engages over 1000 undergraduates annually; the School of Government has an alumni body of over 3000; more than 10,000 individuals are part of an active "network" of the School. Each day our office receives well over 50 phone calls for Dean Allison and dozens of pieces of mail...
...women tuned in to the unions, business political-action committees or the old-boy network, which help men candidates raise sizable chunks of money. It becomes a catch-22 situation: women find it hard to attract heavy contributions because they seem less likely to win than male opponents, and women are less likely to win because they cannot raise big money. Audrey Sheppard of the Washington consulting firm of Rothstein/Buckley reports: "Where women were able to raise the money and run adequate campaigns, they were very competitive...
...network hurts women further by excluding them from power. "When those smoke-filled rooms open," says New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fen wick, "there's hardly ever a woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout?Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
Poor says she thinks a network will develop as more women graduates of business schools come to accept a responsibility on their part to provide guidance to other women in their early years with large firms. An encouraging sign, she adds, was the result of a survey the WSA conducted by mail this fall among 1200 HBS alumnae. All of the 300 women who responded said they are interested in helping HBS women to launch their careers...
Despite their affirmation of the need for a business-women's network, many HBS women hesitate to call themselves feminists. Some have found identification with the women's movement a drawback in their work experience, especially when they are the first women to hold their positions...