New Delhi, May 09: A sale team is discussing strategy. While the men give their presentations, they look one another in the eye and pay attention. When the lone female member starts to talk, they look at their watches. As the meeting draws to a close, the men start talking about football and drift off to the pub. What's that behaviour called — chauvinism? Or just plain bad manners? It doesn't much matter to the woman concerned; either way she gets left out. A few exceptional women might have broken through the glass ceiling but, according to a new report by the think tank Demos, most never even get near to it, excluded from the old boy network that still dominates British business. But the girls aren't sitting back and complaining. They are starting rival networks. Over the past few years there has been an explosion of "new girl networks", both formal and informal. Ostensibly they get women together to listen to speakers on business presentation and corporate strategy. But the real value is in the drinks after the lectures: an opportunity to get to know your rivals, swap experiences and career openings or, more often, to warn other women about companies where a macho culture holds sway.