challenges faced by women in public relations





Women are the majority in public relations,yet they face challenges in this field. Women find themselves faced with challenges such as salary,hiring,sexual harassment, roles and job satisfaction. Men are paid better salaries in public relations than women despite their lack of experience and knowledge of skills, whereas women a paid less amount of money even though they have better experience than men. women are hired for more technical roles in companies such as implementing decisions made by others, writing , editing, producing messages making media contacts, meeting with peers and handling making calls whereas men are hired for more managerial positions such as counselling management, supervising the work of others, conducting or analysing research, making communication policy, planning and managing budgets and meeting with clients/ executives. With job satisfaction men are satisfied with their income and greater satisfaction with opportunities for advancement and women have become more satisfied with factors such as job security.

Most companies will prefer hiring men over women who have better experience,knowledge of skills and more experience to balance gender equality in public relations. Most women find it hard to be promoted and more likely agreed it is hard for them to reach the top. It is believed women who have children find it hard to juggle both work and their families therefore they produce less quality work than men. Sexual harassment is also one of the challenges women are faced with, men believe women should use their sexuality in order   for them to get clients and gain managerial positions. Women are believed to be emotionally involved and controlling at times therefore they don't deserve to be in leadership. despite women being the new majority in public relations they are still treated unfairly and with disrespect, i think its about time women are recognised for their hard work,the overall knowledge of public relations and how much they value their jobs and i believe they deserve managerial positions like men.

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~pr/prsa2000genderstudy.htm

is physical appearance important for women in pr?

a professional look for women in the workplace

Does physical appearance really matters in the workplace especially in public relations?. Most people believe in that if you look good you feel better and i also agree with that physical appearance does affect your overall personality. Image is very important in the public relations because most of the time we deal with the public, looking good does not necessary mean women should now go for plastic surgery and get breast implants or nose jobs to impress their clients, looking good in public relations means taking care of yourself by eating healthy,exercising  and coming to work looking and feeling fresh. Remember looking good boost self confidence and self esteem in that way as a public relations practitioner you can attract alot of clients. 

Your physical appearance or your overall look is important when presenting yourself in a professional situation. Appearing groomed and well put together will position you as professional and credible at your workplace for example having your client's physical appearance that match your audience that you appealing to will make seem more credible to them. Most women think looking good in the workplace means wearing clothes that are revealing to attract clients, and that has resulted in women being sexually harassed in their field of work and also it can affect how clients think of you and will have doubt in your credibility, women always remember this looks can also be deceiving at times not only are clients attracted by looks but they also get attracted by your a intelligent person. Public relations is a field that requires beauty with brains.

                    The female appeal in public relations



Women are dominating in pr



Women are better public relations prectitioners than men, the reason why i say women are doing a better job in this field is because women are better communicators and better listeners than men, because men are aggressive and they dont pay attention most of the time. Public relations deals with relations building as one of the most important skills in this field. Public relations prectioner have the ability to form trusting and lasting relationship with clients, and women and definately have those skills. Men are often distracted and dont attend well to the the quality of relationship building while solving problems with clients.

Women care about relationship they build with the clients and they are good with problem solving and while men on the other hand care more about the out come and how it will affect their profession status amd impressing only their bosses and what they will think than sustaing a better relationship with the client. women are more social and enjoy interacting with people and men are more uptight and most of the time they appreciate being in the limelight. women are are always aware of the latest trends whether in fashion or news that are relavant to public relations. Women are all about knowing the customer and portraying the image that the company wants, not that men dont a good in and they dont to their organisation but women are better at portraying a good image than men and they always thimking of building a good relationship with their clients and keepimg them happy.

Women are the new majority in PR

 

Gender imbalance in pr



recently, there has been a growing interest in public relations as a profession especiallly from women about 70 percent of women are public relations prectitioners and this has created  gender imbalance in many organisations and public relations firms. Men feel public relations is a career meant for women and they also feel it is not manly enough for them. Organisations feel that such an imbalance create a unhealthy workplace and clients prefer a input or services from a group of people balanced by gender.companies feel that there is a need for affirmative action to be taken in oder to attract more men into the public relayions field, they feel men should be offerred more pay than women for doing the same job and some believes that a less qualified man should be employed over a more qualifield female public relations prectitioner.

                                         First Female President in Southern Africa.

 

Joyce Banda has been a strong advocate for women and girls, particularly those in rural communities, throughout her political career. She was even recognized by Forbes Magazine last year when she was named Africa’s third most powerful female politician. Now, as she takes over as Malawi’s president, she is the first female head of state in southern Africa. One of her top priorities has been to get more girls in Malawi in school, a pledge she made years ago after using the proceeds from her garment manufacturing business and bakery to send underprivileged girls to school. Banda takes over the role following the death of the country’s former president Bingu wa Mutharika. Joyce  is a longtime women's-rights activist, educator and philanthropist. In addition to all that, the 62-year-old is also now Malawi's first female president, and the African continent's second. Banda, who was previously the country's vice president, took on her new leadership role on Saturday, two days after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika.

Nadya Suleman: The Octuplet Mom

Nadya Suleman, a single mother gave birth to octuplets in January 2009 in California by in vitro fertilization. Nadya was already a mother of 6 children, taking the grand total to 14. With no disposable income and no proper plan on how to provide for these 14, the birth of these eight newborn babies has become a highly controversial one.

33 year old, Nadya Suleman from California gave birth to octuplets (8 babies) on January 26th 2009, which happen to be the second set of living octuplets in the United States. The first set of octuplets was born to Nkem Chukwu of Texas in 1998, however, their tiniest baby died a week later. This makes Nadya Suleman to be the first octuplet mom. Nadya's six boys and two girls of the healthy octuplet troop were born nine weeks premature at the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, California. The birth of the octuplets spearheaded a controversy in the United States, when people came to know these eight babies were the result of the implantation of 6 embryos, which was in violation to the professional guidelines.

Moreover, what added fuel to the controversy was that Nadya Suleman was already a mother of 6 children, age 2-7, before she gave birth to the octuplets, thereby taking the total number to 14. The other 6 children were also born through in vitro fertilization. Nadya, a single mother with no disposable income was surviving on student loans to sustain her family of six children before she decided to go in for another pregnancy. She survives on $490 food stamps a month and disability funds to run the house. 3 of her 6 children are disabled, one with ADHD, one with a speech impediment and the other with autism.

African most Richest Women

WHO ARE THE TOP AFRICAN RICHEST WOMEN?

Gone are thosse days were women use to be stay at home/house wives.Sisters are doing it for themselves. These are are the following richest women in Africa.

Isabel Dos Santos of Angola is the top Richest woman in Africa. She is the daughter of the angolan president Jose Eduaro Dos Santos, This Angolan bussiness women made a name for herself in bussiness using her fathers connections at the age of  24years. she owns 10% of the Zon multimedia, a big media company based in Portugal which she bought for 164 million Pounds. She also has major stakes in Portuge banks and energy companies. 

There are other top richest women in Africa like Bridgette Motsepe born in South Africa she is the eldest sister of South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe . Radebe began her career as a contract miner in the 1980s. Her background in Mining led her to found the Mmaku mining company which is the largest mining company in South Africa. Bridgette Radebe is also a president of the South African Mining Development Association ( SMMDA) and is also married to justice minister of South Africa Jeff Radebe.

 Elisabeth Bradley also born in South Africa she in the car industry she is also one of the richest woman in Africa she owns a Toyota company which was bought by her father in 1961 to South Africa.She is executive chairman of Wesco Investments limited and shes als serves as an executive director of AngloGold. Wendy Ackerman from South Africa is also one of the richest  in Africa she gained her most of her fortune through owning almost 50% of the large leading chain Pick n Pay. she performs the job of executive director in the $ 3 billion company which has other six stores in other African countries like nambia, Mozabique ,Nambia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and others.    

Ladies it is time we do things for ourselves and stop depending on men to pay our own bills, ladies like Isabel Dos Santos, Bridgette Motsepe, Elisabeth Bradley and Wendy Ackerman are the living proof that women can also be multi-millionaires.