Our goal is to organise both business and leisure activities for women. There are a lot of clubs which lean more towards business or more towards leisure, but with WEC we aim to have a balance of both. For example, in November we had Marjorie Yang speaking at a luncheon, which is more business orientated. But in December we will have a pastry workshop and then in the same month we will have a golf outing, which are leisure activities. We will also organise a few charity events for WEC, which could also be Chamber-wide. We already participated in the first one, which was the Halloween charity event at Ocean Park in October.

Women executives have to work all day long and when we go home we need to take care of our families. But on the business side, we need to do some networking or spend some time with our female peers to keep up with market trends. By the same token, we also need to let our hair down and have a place where we can talk about business, children, or women's issues.

I don't think so. Men can attend some of our events, but the point is that we want to focus on a particular group of people so that we can provide precisely the type of activities they are interested in, and in this case it is for females. For example, other groups focus on children, or pensioners, and by keeping it focused they can concentrate on activities that specifically interest them.

We have six VPs [vice presidents] and each one is responsible for various interest groups. I found it really encouraging that every one is so enthusiastic, energetic and supportive. We've only been going for a month but we have already lined up 10 events for the months ahead, so that is really encouraging.

It could be because its a new club, thats true, but it also depends on the leadership of the VPs. I believe all the executives and myself are committed to taking a very active role and really making this club successful.