Networking: The Great New Way for Women to Get Ahead

by Mary-Scott Welch

Written in an era when more women were competing for jobs traditionally dominated by men, networking, through individual contacts and professional organizations, became an important technique for women to get career advice and make connections. Such contacts also helped offset the competitive advantage men often enjoyed through their own "old boy" network.

278 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Mary-Scott "Scotty" Welch was a writer and feminist leader who fostered the concept of networking to advance a woman's career. She wrote her book Networking: The Great New Way for Women to Get Ahead in an era when more women were competing for jobs traditionally dominated by men.

Ms. Welch was born in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Illinois, she was in the first group of Waves commissioned by the Navy during World War II.

Ms. Welch wrote books on varied topics, including wilderness trips, cooking, travel for teenage girls and etiquette. She was also a freelance magazine writer whose work was published in Redbook, Esquire, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Reader's Digest, and Modern Maturity. Ms. Welch also worked as an editor at Pageant and Look magazines and was editor-in-chief of Homemaker's Digest.

She served on advisory boards for Cornell University's Institute for Women and Work and for the National Organization for Women. In the 1970s, she was the coordinator of NOW's Rape Prevention Committee in New York City.