Most Major Industries Are Lacking in Female Leaders...But Not PR

Everyone with an internet connection knows about the lack of strong, highly visible female executives in the tech world. There’s a reason Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer stand out so prominently, and the recent firing of Business Insider‘s CTO for posting misogynistic musings on Twitter led many tech bloggers to reflect on the “bro culture” that dominates Silicon Valley.

It’s not just tech, though. The snafu over publisher Bryan Golbderg’s new “female-focused” web magazine Bustle showed that the media/journalism world still disproportionately consists of men catering to female audiences despite the prominence of names like Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown.

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