Rethinking the Table: Women Leaders in Public Relations in Canada - Couverture souple

Killingsworth, Colleen; Thurlow, Amy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0919852920 ISBN 13 : 9780919852921

Editeur : Centennial College Press, 2025

Synopsis

This exciting book investigates the experiences and representation of women in Canadian public relations. Making use of intersectionality/intersectional theory to inform their research, the authors explore:
• The gender gap with respect to compensation, decision-making as part of the dominant coalition, and mentorship;
• Societal barriers experienced by women public relations leaders, including differences compared to other professions;
• Ways in which women can develop and advance their leadership skills; and
• Considerations for new professionals.
Rethinking the Table aims to add to the conversation by collecting and giving voice to women working in Canada’s public relations/communications management profession. The authors use the latest research to focus on factors that are advancing women in their career paths as well as the barriers that exist.

Foreword by Kim Blanchette
Afterword by Terence Flynn
General Editors: Mark Hunter LaVigne and Colin Babiuk

PRAISE FOR RETHINKING THE TABLE
“[The authors] provide undeniable data that helps us understand the experience of Canadian women in PR leadership, blending the lived experience of professionals across the country to provide nuance and context to the research findings, presenting a compelling call for change. Only by examining the true extent of the inequities and the barriers that limit our success, can we drive a national conversation on how we all, collectively, do better.” ---Kim Blanchette, Executive Vice President, Castlemain
“This book must become required reading for all future public relations students, and even current practitioners, if we hope to make this profession more equitable and inclusive in Canada.” ---Terence (Terry) Flynn, McMaster University

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Colleen Killingsworth brings her perspectives from more than 30 years of experience in public relations and communications management leadership to Rethinking the Table. She has worked in the health care, energy, education, municipal government, travel and tourism, and transportation sectors, and is an accredited communications professional and a member of the CPRS College of Fellows. Killingsworth is a sessional instructor in the McMaster Master of Communications Management (MCM) program, and an instructor in the Public Relations and Communications Management Extension Certificate Program at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
Amy Thurlow is Professor of Communication at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Her research is motivated by a curiosity about how humans socially construct and enact organization through processes of identity construction. Her 2019 book, Social Media, Organizational Identity and Public Relations: The Challenge of Authenticity, investigates identity construction in a virtual context, while her most recent book, Diversity and Business Storytelling (2023), is a collection of works exploring diversity in organizations from a variety of perspectives, co-edited with Jean Helms Mills.
Nicolle Wahl is an award-winning marketing and communications professional with more than two decades of experience in the higher education field at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. She earned her Master of Communications Management from McMaster University in August 2024 as the program’s 200th graduate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Centennial College Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0919852920
• ISBN 13: 9780919852921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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