Within the 21st century, most PR practitioners are feminine — estimates vary from about 60% to greater than 80% — however it’s been an extended highway to get right here.
The Museum of PR celebrated Ladies’s Historical past Month with a March 3 presentation on “PR Ladies Who Modified Historical past.” This jam-packed presentation featured interviews and profiles of ladies who paved the best way within the business: not only for ladies, however for all practitioners who got here after and may be taught from their experience.
Their knowledge concerning the observe of PR and discovering their very own place in a world that wasn’t made for them resonates.
These had been a number of the most impactful quotes from these wonderful ladies. Please drop into the feedback and inform us concerning the ladies who’ve impressed you in your profession journey.
“Nicely, all I can say is that if I had been advising younger ladies, I might say to achieve retain your integrity. Be true to your self and to whoever you’re working with. Additionally, be variety, I feel it’s vital that individuals deal with different folks with respect and kindness.”
— Barbara Hunter, founding father of Hunter PR.
“You need to be daring. You need to be daring to enter a place that nobody’s been in earlier than. You need to be daring to be the one girl within the room, which occurs time and again. You need to be daring to have the ability to take loads on the nostril as a result of no person wished to spend money on a girl.” —
–Carol Evans, CEO and government director at SHARE Most cancers Assist, founder and former CEO of Working Mom Media.
“One of many issues that I like most about my 35-plus 12 months PR profession was the work that my companies did in creating campaigns addressing vital social and well being points like home violence, illiteracy, monetary illiteracy, breast most cancers, drug abuse and others. And dealing on these campaigns, I do know firsthand that PR and comms professionals can activate social change inside and past our workplaces.”
— Ann Walker Marchant, CEO of Walker Marchant Group.
“One other downside that we as minorities, and particularly black ladies, are confronted with is that our credibility is and has been constantly questioned. This system folks and contracting officers of federal companies nonetheless don’t imagine that black ladies are able to performing a job or rendering a service equal to different ladies and males. Black ladies can handle and run profitable companies if given an equal alternative to compete in a free enterprise system.”
— PR pioneer Inez Kaiser to Congress in 1977.
“Construct a group of different single mothers within the business to be taught from them to bounce issues off. And in actual time, constructing that community is invaluable. And simply all the time having folks which are going by way of related issues that you might discuss to and be taught from. Having that assist is so vital.”
— Ann Walker Marchant, CEO of Walker Marchant Group.
