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Monday Jan 09, 2006

PR Men to Women: Go Back to the Kitchen!

prlady.jpgWell, maybe not as such. Blogger Sunny Shim reports that about 70% of today's PR practitioners are women. "Currently, many managers say that such an imbalance is not a healthy workplace situation. Marsterller chairman Harold Burson argued that when clients sought the services of a PR company they prefer input 'from a group of people balanced by gender' and that even women PROs themselves feel the lack of men in PR is 'unhealthy'. Consequently, some feel that something like reverse affirmative action is needed to attract more men into the public relations field. For example, some firms may offer men more pay than women for doing the same job. Some believes that a less-qualified man should be hired over a more qualified female applicant."

Uh, what?

For those of you in the unfair majority, meanwhile, Shim compiled a list of top PR bloggers, so those of you can get in touch and discuss your evil stranglehold on the industry.


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