Women's Organizations in Los Angeles and Southern California
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- Women in Business - Los Angeles.
"Women In Business - WIB - began very informally in late-1974, as an
outgrowth of a UCLA Extension Workshop, entitled "Women, Work and Power."
Businesswomen continued to meet at one another's homes to begin a
phenomenon-which would soon become known as "networking."
A second UCLA workshop was held in September, 1975, and the number of
women wanting to share in the network grew so rapidly that WIB held its
first organized luncheon the next month. While 35 invitations were sent to
those who might be interested, more than 80 women, prominent in the
business community, attended.
WIB was incorporated as a not-for-profit business league in 1976-an
organized forum of economic and emotional support for successful
businesswomen.
With the advent of new chapters forming in other cities, "Los Angeles" was
added to the original chapter's name, and it became Women In Business/Los
Angeles."
