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\"In the 1800s, most women took care of their hair at home. Martha Matilda Harper changed that. She invented the beauty salon. She built a network of over 500 salons around the world. Hair is the story of this woman’s journey. She went from servant to successful business owner!\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about Martha Matilda Harper.

When she finished learning all the essential tricks of the hair-dressing trade more than five decades ago, Jackie Conway admits she wasn't exactly Miss Talkative. With the Crossroads Building just a few dozen steps to the west and the First Federal Building a few dozen steps to the east, most of her customers naturally are a mix of lawyers, bankers and brokers. \"Because I have all of the old equipment here, and because tonsorial was used by barbers long ago, it fit with the appearance,\" she said.

From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Amy Post and Martha Matilda Harper, Rochester has a long history' of nurturing strong, independent women, it was these agitators, these reactionaries, who served as motivation for future generations of like-minded women to start one of the nation's earliest women's networking groups. Founded in 1978 by a group led by Jane Plitt and Mona Miller, RWN was born of the frustration women often felt because men had their own networking opportunities, while women were relegated to stewing alone over the gender wage gap, sexual harassment and the absence of women on corporate boards. RWN offers members a number of services including monthly fine networking events and at least one programming event per month with titles such as \"Boys in the Breakroom,\" \"Shifting the Point of View': What's Hidden in Your Story\" and \"The Power of Allies: The Role of Men in Women's Quest for Parity,\" a program jointly held in July with women's groups from Xerox Corp., Harris Corp. and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.