April 6, 2005 8:10 AM

Drinking on the job?
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 8:10 AM

The Chicago Tribune today takes a look at how women are doing their own version of the Power Lunch:

Perhaps three-martini lunches are passe, but young businesswomen--particularly on the coasts and mostly among themselves--are reviving the 12 o'clock toast. Although she considers business and booze a bad mix, Rachel Weingarten, president of a Brooklyn, N.Y., marketing firm, has observed that the women she dines with drink more than the men. She attributes this feminized "cocktail culture" to the TV series "Sex and the City," which glamorized the martini.