This study explores the ways in which a particular group of women, namely professional women, relate to, and see, each other as workers within the context of the 'gendered' work organisation (Acker, 1991; 1992). A study looking at the dynanfiics of professional women's workplace relationships with each other is especially interesting at a time not only when more women are in paid employment (particularly women with children under fm), but more women are working in the professions and in management.