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Call it the New Girls' Network. At professional services firms in fields like law, accounting, and advertising, the partners who control the biggest share of revenues wield the most influence. For those on their way up, getting there has traditionally meant working closely with senior partners on key client accounts, with the aim of taking them over when the partner retires. 姑且把它称为“新女生网络 ”(New Girls' Network)吧。在法律、会计和广告等领域的专业服务公司，掌控最大份额收入的合伙人通常影响力最强。对于一心追求进步的专业人士来说，抵达职业高峰的传统途径是，与高级合伙人紧密合作，一起经营关键客户，目的是熬到高级合伙人退休后顺利接管这些资源。 For women, that happens less often. So female fast-trackers have found a different strategy: rainmaking, or tapping their networks outside the firm to recruit new clients -- many of whom are women, too. 对于女性来说，这种情况很少发生。不过，雄心勃勃的女性职员已经发现了一条全新的晋升策略：造雨(rainmaking)，即利用她们在公司外的网络招募新客户——其中许多客户也是女性。 That's the finding of a new study co-authored by Forrest Briscoe, who teaches management and sociology at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, and published in the current issue of the Journal of Professions and Organization. Firms that want more diversity at the senior partner level, the study says, can increase revenues at the same time by encouraging even more of the rainmaking that many female junior partners already do. | 
