Stepping off the career track is easy, but getting back on is hard.

In March 2005, the Harvard Business Review published a landmark article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce entitled "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success." This network is an outgrowth of the amazing response that piece generated. We want this to be a place for people who are either ramping up or ramping down to share their experiences and...