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March 21, 2006

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tamashi_no_tori

I bet no one knew it was a female creative director at Chiat who made Think Different happen. Lee is a true visionary and I won't deny that, but Susan Alinsanga is the female brains behind Apple.

Naomi Cook

*I* should have been on that list!!!

;-)

gold1show

I agree there definitely should have been some female representation on the list especially considering some of these guys have only been rocking it for less than a decade. Personally, Janet Champ, Charlotte Moore, or Kara Goodrich would been better choices than a couple of the younger guys on the list.

As for who should you blame? Blame the editor, Teressa Iezzi. Kinda makes me wonder if it was as chauvanistic a list as you are attempting to make ir seem like.

Jenn Totten

In defense of the post, we're not trying to make the list "seem" like anything.
It is what it is.
All men.
Why this is so, we are curious.
This isn't about bashing any gender or any person in particular.
It's about asking why and motivating the industry to do something about it.

gold1show

If that was your intent, that's cool.
But to end an entry with, "Or was this poor journalism?" tends to add an definite opinion as to what was thought of the piece.
Additionally, in computer language, bolding or all caps is used to denote a person screaming. So when, "What women really deserve to be on this list?" is bolded seems to come off as a challenge. That's all. It's a completely semantically based disagreement.

To clarify, it's not an industry recognition. It's recognition from one periodical. If you really want to know why, then call Creativity and challenge them on their criteria.

Claire Whigham

The bolding of "What women really deserve to be on this list?" was meant as a challenge. When I first read the article, I was appalled by the fact that no women were included. After getting over that shock, I realized that it took me quite a while to come up with women that deserved to be included. A few hours later, I came up with Paula Scher, Maureen Shirreff, Diane Rothschild, and Jane Hope. And commented on Adcritic.com in regards to these women being missing - questioning Teressa on how they decided who did and did not make it. I have not seen a response from them yet.

As to the article being "chauvinistic," I never said or meant to imply that. The post was done as a challenge to women - to do better, to make the list next time, to prove that the Boy's Club is on it's way out. And ended with the question of whether or not the article was a good representation of who the industry considers the top 50 creatives of the last 20 years. Simply a question to start a discussion.

Jenn Totten

This certainly isn't something only we are addressing. An author at The Huffington Post, a political leftwing group blog, recently voiced her questions about the Creativity article and the larger issue at hand: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lu-chekowsky/where-are-the-influential_b_18278.html

Read the comments though. There are definitely some people out there who aren't so sensitive to the issue... as one blogger asks, "Of what momentous consequence is your issue..the vacuous wasteland that is advertising doesn't have enough female hacks?"

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