Banishing the Boys Club
Written by Brenda McNeilly, VP Creative Director. Originally published in Marketing Magazine, July 2010 When I was being interviewed after presiding as a judge in the Direct Lions at Cannes, I jokingly commented, “We need more cans in Cannes.” Actually, I wasn’t joking. If somebody had told me 20 years ago that there would be no more and possibly fewer female creative directors in 2010, I would have said “I don’t believe it, not in a million years.” But here we are in 2010, and it is so. Of the...

