Networking is a key to everybody's success, not just women.<p>Some hackers have a tendency to see success through networking as a lower sort of success.<p>As in, you weren't smart enough to do something on your own, good thing you had a lot of connections.<p>But that's a profoundly naive view of the world.<p>Nothing that you can do/build/write/etc can be:<p>1. Easily understood. Almost anyone gets it at first look<p>2. Incredibly valuable.<p>3. Requires little to no resources.<p>Only if you have all of the above can you become successful with no connections.<p>But unless you can make people instantly young again, using nothing but your pocket lint and hand waiving, you will need networking.