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By: Women Snubbed in Top Ten Speakers List, Industry in General » The Buzz Bin

Women Snubbed in Top Ten Speakers List, Industry in General » The Buzz Bin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:28:03 +0000

[...] media conference that intentionally highlights female speakers; as a blogger who has discussed the social media and PR industry’s glass ceiling both in the office and in the blogosphere; and, yes, as a man who speaks frequently on social [...]

By: Rajani

Rajani — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:45:10 +0000

According to me in PR sector now females are much in numbers as they can deal with patient to the clients. They have good convincing skills to convince there clints. As PR industry is one such industry where you maintaine the crediblity with the client with patients and calm.

By: The Women of BlogPotomac » The Buzz Bin

The Women of BlogPotomac » The Buzz Bin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:03:46 +0000

[...] that a majority of industry communicators are in actuality women. The same disturbing trend occurs in the PR and marketing blogosphere. Less than 10 of the Ad Age top 50 ranked blogs are written by women. Heck, even in our society, [...]

By: RSSmeme | Prâ€™S Glass Ceiling

RSSmeme | Prâ€™S Glass Ceiling — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:38:59 +0000

[...] PRâ€™s Glass Ceiling (1) share! by Geoff Livingston (19) on The Buzz Bin (27) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink Perhaps youâ€™ve noticed. Itâ€™s not a new issue. According to Kami, 87 percent of top marketing bloggers on the Ad Age 150 are men (prompting last summerâ€™s W list meme). And 90-95 percent of the top twenty bloggers on Brendan Cooperâ€™s Friendly PR Index are men. This overwhelming statistic reflects recent social media speaking trends, too (image credit: dunechaser). There are some reasons for this: PR agency and consulting life can be grueling, and many … Tagged Pr (130) Shared by chrisbrogan.com (357) Explore similar stories Contribute comment Copyright © 2008 | | About | Blog | Buzz | Contact | Donate | Legal | Widget | FeedBurner FeedFlare | Created by Benjamin Golub | CSS by Brian Beck var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-3578099-1″); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); [...]

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-12

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-02-12 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:22:10 +0000

[...] PR’s Glass Ceiling Â» The Buzz Bin “87 percent of top marketing bloggers on the Ad Age 150 are men. And 90-95 percent of the top twenty bloggers on Brendan Cooperâ€™s Friendly PR Index are men. This overwhelming statistic reflects recent social media speaking trends, too.” (tags: blogging marketing PR sexism gender men women) [...]

By: Strive Notes » Why give women equal pay?

Strive Notes » Why give women equal pay? — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:00:49 +0000

[...] in the PR industry, discussion of gender equality always stirs [...]

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Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:19:32 +0000

[...] Clinton: Don’t use the phrase “pimped out” regarding anyone’s daughter. (Via Spin Thicket.)#4 PR’s Glass Ceiling: “Because approximately 90 percent male leadership seems just wrong.” Amen. #5 Marketing Lessons [...]

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By: Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:24:59 +0000

Geoff – thanks – first for calling me a “great professional dad” – that means a lot to me. I think there are a lot of great professional dads (and moms) though – I just happen to be a single dad with custody of his kids (for the last six years, since they were 12 and 10).

My kids are the main reason I decided to go into consulting – to care for them the way I wanted to I made a choice that I would “write my own ticket”. I’ve never regretted foregoing my nearly $220K/year salary to do that – and that is exactly why I bristle when I hear people (mostly women, actually) talking about other female professionals that decide to either leave their careers (or put them on hold for a while) catch crap from their former coworkers.

I certainly understand why those women (and increasingly more common, men) make that choice – the chances are that I can make 200K a year again sometime. The chance to raise my kids will never come again.

I don’t think the PR industry is any diferent than any other professional industry – historically women have been the ones to put their careers on hold for the children – and this has put them at a disadvantage when it comes to senior leadership positions.

But this too shall change. It already is.

Thankfully.

By: Elizabeth Shea

Elizabeth Shea — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:07:23 +0000

You raise some interesting points, that I agree, are two separate issues. It’s a hot topic!

Our firm is 90% women, not by choice but due to the talent we meet. We continue to look for ways to diversify our gender makeup. Ironic. My direct reports are two women, one man.

Why are there not more female tech bloggers? Not sure. We have two company blogs that our women (and our men) write, but we’re not making a business of it, as the men you may refer to, do. All the tech bloggers I really follow, you’re right, are men. Not one woman.

On women running or owning PR firms, you promted me to look at the WBJ’s Book of Lists for privately owned PR firms, and there are actually, 9 out of 25 firms run by women, with 4 in the market of tech PR: Robyn Sachs, Chryssa Zizos, Joyce Bosc, and yours truly. I know when I co-founded SpeakerBox (with another woman!), we did not go into it for lifestyle purposes, nor for flexibility with children, homelife, etc. If we had, we would soon learn the reality of the situation.

Thanks for keeping the topics interesting, Geoff.