"We couldn't let everyone down, and we also didn't want our own efforts to go to waste," Myers says.
So the entire Women in Business Steering Committee resigned to start a comparable program, bringing with it about 15 other women from the Chamber.
And the Women in Business Connection is thriving. For instance, the women had 110 people attend their first meeting, when they had expected 50 at most.
Since the women are not affiliated with any particular town's chamber, they are even attracting membership from outside Cambridge.
"The response has been phenomenal," Zwanger says. "We struck a chord for what people are looking for."
Oldach, meanwhile, says that although the Chamber has a new Steering Committee whose monthly luncheons have also continued, he wishes that the women had been able to stay. He says he believes the women's success will be limited because they are not part of a Chamber.
"The Chamber is the most successful model of business organization," he says. "These women are losing economic power."
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