Human relationships are an important question nowadays, especially, if they are related to the professional relationships, “It has become almost axiomatic that women live in a web of relationships” (Heim and Murphy 22). The book by Pat Heim and Susan Murphy In the Company of Women is written for women who have difficult relationships in the workplace with other women. Pat Heim and Susan Murphy are two leading experts on gender relationships. In their book, they explore the essence of women communication with their female and male colleagues and answers the question how indirect conflict (aggressive behavior) can influence on women’s career success and personal life. Thus, relationships among woman are rather difficult, especially, if these women are in conflict with each other. One should develop special skills and use different methods of communication with women in order to build successful relationships and friendly environment with female colleagues. So, the book consists of two parts which explore the nature of women relationships in the workplace. It is a guide which is aimed at educating women how to handle conflicts with female colleagues. The authors start with the description and exploring of women’s conflict behavior and the reasons of it. They explore the question of “hidden aggression” and the roots of it. The book also presents the differences in communication between men and woman. The second part is more analytical and critical than a first one. The second part of the book is a “guide” how to turn the conflict into successful collaboration, how to handle the conflict and how woman can become a successful female leader. In addition, the authors give an advice how to build a good team. A very important and useful aspect of the book is that the target audience in not only female, men also can read it in order to be well aware of how to be a leader of the female staff and how communicate with women in order to avoid the conflict. Relationships between women have a special character and several aspects that differ greatly from men’s communication, thus one should be aware of these peculiarities and differences working with women. Woman’s behavior depends on her emotions. She greatly influenced by these emotions even in communication in the business world. A woman is sure that relationships can help her achieve a career success, “women often define career success by their ability to create affiliation with others and develop relationships in the work setting” (Heim and Murphy 22). However, the woman’s work relationships with other woman are tenser and conflict in the majority of cases. Women often gossip about each other and sabotage. On the contrary, women’s work relationships with men are more friendly. What is the reason of this phenomenon? The thing is that women are socialized in a different way, they mix work and emotions. They cannot separate personal feelings in their communication with other people in the work place. Social communication and friendly relationships are very important for women. The authors of the book assume that the causes of it are the brain’s structure and evolution of women in the society. So, such relationships cab be the best thing in woman’s life or the worst one that greatly influences on her perf