Review: “Womenomics”

Womenomics
By Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
HarperBusiness, 2009
256 pages
According to Womenomics, by career women Claire Shipman (Good Morning America) and Katty Kay (BBC News), there’s a “workplace revolution” going on. Women are pushing aside the “daycare dash” and 60-hour work week, but without having to compromise their seat at the table.
This is great news, but why [...]

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Gender and PR

An interesting topic for the public relations profession is whether we will one day need affirmative action programs to recruit males. I say this mostly in jest, but it is interesting to look at the statistics on gender and employment in our industry.
According to official employment figures from Statistics Canada from 1991 to 2006, the [...]

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