“Pink Collar”
“In stark contrast to newsrooms, in which women have never exceeded 38 percent, public relations operates as a solidly pink-collar sector of the creative industries and comprises a labor force that is currently over 85 percent female. The palpable distaste for PR practitioners that continues to swell — spearheaded by the very same members of the media with whom publicists theoretically enjoy a symbiotic relationship — requires, then, a deeper look at how gendered assumptions about work continue to shape our contemporary notions of creative labor under capitalism.”
Pink Collar
Modern public relations has, in its own parlance, an image problem. As an investigation copublished by the Columbia…www.jacobinmag.com
Modern public relations has, in its own parlance, an image problem. As an investigation copublished by the Columbia…www.jacobinmag.com
I love that second sentence, so many thoughts. What is considered “work” and what is considered an (uncompensated) social role?
(Credit to JR)
