This post was written by our Fall 2011 intern, Shahar Gurvitz.

While sitting through my university classes and various internships, I have come to notice I’m surrounded by women. I had only women as bosses at my internships and professors teaching my PR courses. In my last course, there were four men out of 20 total students in the class. However, this is no coincidence. The female dominance in the PR industry is a pattern seen often across the profession. Seventy-three percent of the 21,000 communications and public relation professionals in Public Relations Society of America and its affiliate student branches are women. (more…)