Introducing The Communications Council’s 12 wise men (Queenslanders, West Australians and women need not apply)
Yesterday saw the first election for the board of directors of The Communications Council.
It’s a list of extremely well respected people – but four things stick out.
First, for all its aspirations to be a truly national body, 10 of the 12 board members are based in Sydney. The other two are from Melbourne. (You can see the announcement here.)
Second, there are a lot of organisations entirely unrepresented. The anti-establishment Singleton influence clearly lives on at WPP-affiliated STW (Ogilvy, JWT, Moon etc), with nobody on the board. In the same vein, there’s nobody from a WPP agency either (the Y&R Brands group or Grey for instance). Ditto Interpublic (Draft FCB, Lowe & McCann)
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>Fourth, where are the women?
Seriously, what do you think is more likely?
1. There isn’t a single woman in the whole of the Australian communications industry who is sufficiently qualified to sit on this council
2. Men chose to hire other men
Take your pick.
I still don’t understand why they don’t call this the advertising council. Calling it the communications council misrepresentative
What is the Melbourne/Sydney split in terms of billings? Anyone know? Just curious.
Far too few women at the top of ad agencies. Far too few men at the top of PR agencies. Far too few Aussies at the top of media agencies.
How about some sort of exchange programme?
Maybe, there aren’t many women filling senior roles in the agency world, but on the client side, you’re lucky to find a male nowadays. So, let’s not go down this tired old gender route. Just let the cream rise to the top, regardless of which loo they use. And for the record, I’m male, own my own small agency and 4 of my 5 clients marketing departments are run by women; and, as of 5:00pm tonight, those 4-mentioned females were quite happy to have a male as their agency partner.
What about Michelle Hutton, new CEO at PR firm Edelman? A worthy candidate, most would agree
Teena Jameson would have ticked a few boxes for them
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It would have been inappropriate to put women onto the board because after all they tend to prefer flower arranging to golf and everyone knows that is the primary benefit of board-dom.
Seriously though, with two or three notable exceptions, at first I thought this was a list of Sydney’s most self-promoting FILTH (Failed in London, Try Here).
I understand now that the contentious ‘Communications Council’ name is actually a statement of irony.
How embarrassing for all concerned. Sydney centric, no women, what year is this again? We should be ashamed of ourselves that the Sydney Boy’s Club is so transparent – and no-one cares…
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