Over 150 years ago, in July 1848, the First Women’s RIghts Convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY, and the women’s movement in America was born. Hundreds of women gathered together for a meaningful discussion of the challenges facing them and to develop a way to approach solutions as a unified group.

Women now make up roughly 50% of the American workforce and have outpaced their male counterparts in college admission and graduation rates. More specifically, in the legal profession women now account for roughly 45% of law school graduates and new associate attorneys. In light of women’s collective progress in education and the working world, do we still need to rely on women’s professional affinity groups for support, advice, and guidance on “making it” in a man’s world? Is it still a man’s world?

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