How can I break into the boys' club?

Every month on the Anita Borg Institute's site, I answer a career or leadership question.

Question:
Given that I have always worked in a male dominated industry (very often I am the only woman in the room, or one of very few), in an engineering capacity, how can I break into the male networks? It seems that people are just not treating me as one of the “guys”. With my most recent lay-off I get the opportunity to start from scratch, so I want to do it right from the beginning.

Read the column at AnitaBorg.org