
Celebrating the Female Story – Creating Positive Change for Women in PR
Working in recruitment for the communications industry, I have met thousands of incredible women who work in PR.
In the earlier stages of my career, I was meeting similarly young, ambitious women, a few years out of university, hungry to develop their experience, contacts books and absorb everything they could from the agencies or in house roles they were in.
In 2021, I turned 45 and I have now been in communications recruitment for over 17 years. Reflecting on my age milestone and needing to tick a new box on a form, I thought about all the women I know, who have now left the PR industry.
Many leave as the balance of working and personal commitments becomes too great, or too expensive to manage. But this is often coupled with the fact that they don’t see enough women in senior positions, who have taken the journey and reached the career heights they set out to achieve.
When the team at Women in PR approached me about supporting their 45 over 45, I jumped at the opportunity. I was delighted to be part of their judging panel and to join them as part of a debate on why so many women leave the industry and what we can all do to help combat this in the future.
