114-page Resource Guide contents:

• Biographies of the 19 women profiled

• Viewing Notes

• Full Program Script

• Discussion-Starters

• Discussion Questions

• Resources/Bibliography

Writing is a crucial part of many nontraditional careers. As a police detective says, "The ability to communicate with people is absolutely the most critical part of the job. You have to know how to reach out into other people's worlds, across the barrier that separates you from them. You have to know how to write and to put your thoughts down into words that will build a case that's good enough and strong enough to go to court and to win. Because even if you make a good arrest, if you can't put that arrest down on paper in a coherent manner, that builds all of the elements of the case into the report, the case isn't going to go anywhere. The district attorney is going to drop it, the detective's going to drop it. They will plea bargain it down, because they can't possibly take it to court."