Professional Women in Conversation

Abstract

In the spring of 1992, we convened meetings of two groups of professional women in Boston to discuss the role of professional women in effecting change. Our point of departure was a two-part series about the women's movement and the distance between achievements and expectations. Using biography, the participants grappled with the capacity for organization change and the ways these experiences affect them on a personal level. Significant differences emerged in the group around issues of choice, responsibility, leadership, and renewal. No conclusions were reached, but all believed that dialogue as a collective enterprise could in itself foster new ways of engagement and thereby precipitate change.