Settling into my seat at a women's networking lunch, it soon became apparent the guests at my table more than matched the billing of the event.There was the corporate lawyer in a sharply tailored suit; the top banking executive with a scary haircut; the woman who ran a recruitment business placing people in six-figure salary jobs and another who did something inexplicably complicated in tech — a formidable band of females making great strides in their professional lives.So, given the pedigree of my fellow diners, you might imagine the scope for absorbing conversation about, say, politics, work, travel or books would be limitless. Yet as the waiters poured glasses of crisp Chablis and offered round smoked salmon hors d'oeuvres, it soon became clear there would be no side order of lively conversation.
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