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The Glass Escalator

Thursday, March 31, 2011

The word glass is used a lot of business management metaphors that use glass to describe the invisible concerns and plights of certain groups. The glass ceiling may be the most familiar. Recently, I have come across another term.

The glass escalator bounced onto my radar during my dissertation. This term describes the advantage of being a man in a stereotypically female profession. Christine L. Williams examined this phenomenon in four female-dominated professions: nursing, librarianship, elementary school teaching, and social work. Men who worked in these “untraditional” fields faced discrimination outside of their chosen profession, but internally they were given token status with great benefits. From Williams:

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Being Mentored to Death Rather Than Promoted

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

In Hermina Ibarra’s Harvard Business Review podcast titled Women are over-mentored (But under-sponsored), she discussed a recent study where she found that many mentoring programs were not producing a true substantial result for women: promotions up the corporate hierarchy.

In essence, the women were “being mentored to death rather than promoted.”

Mentoring is a tricky and fuzzy concept that gets thrown around a lot. Mentoring has a lot of connotation. Talking to people about mentoring provides you with an assortment of definitions and descriptions. What we do know is that mentoring is a relationship between two people that will change over time. Sometimes it is formalized by organizations or associations. Sometimes it is an organic relationship that emerges out of a talk over coffee or bonding at a retreat.

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Unsung Heroes in Public Relations History

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

March is Women’s History Month, and this is an appropriate time to highlight some of the women who have made history in the field of public relations. Several scholars have noted the need to expand the history of public relations to include the experiences of women in the civic/social, government, agency, and corporate worlds. This is a small attempt to showcase some historical research about great women who have been practitioners.

Anne Williams Wheaton
She served as the assistant to the director of publicity for the Republican National Committee from 1939 to 1957. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower named Wheaton the Associate Press Secretary. She was the first woman to hold that post. She stayed in this position until 1961.

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List of Public Relations Diversity Resources

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A friend sent me this Ad Age article about the “sorry state of diversity” in the advertising field that address the layered problems with recruiting and retaining people of color.

The one thing that struck me and my friend about the article was the list of resources at the end. My friend at the bottom of his email about the story asked, “Is there a list like this for PR?”

I couldn’t find such a list, so I created this one. This will be an on-going project of the Diversity Committee for the next year to modify and update this list. If you have any organizations, scholarship, or awards programs that have been omitted, let us know.

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New Year, New Focus

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Roman god Janus is the namesake for January. Typically Janus is depicted with two faces: one that faces the past or what is behind and one that faces forward, looking to the future.

January is the time of year where we make resolutions, pin hopes on the new year, and preparing for new beginnings while keeping the accomplishments and disappointments of the last year in mind.

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