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Professor Bruce

English 301

March 16, 2017

Annotated Bibliography

Working Title:

Equality in PR

Research Question:

The number of women involved in Public Relations have increased dramatically, however, are

there hiring standards that prevent gender discrimination in place?

Working Thesis:

Gender discrimination illustrates how an individuals sexual orientation can be scrutinized

differently. However, the main focus lies within the wage gap among men and women. Even

though statistics demonstrate the increase of women involvement in the public relations field.

Unfortunately, it reflects the stark contrasts and inequality of wages between men and women.

Therefore, gender discrimination is subtly causing the huge wage gap between the two sexes.

Introduction:

For starters, Public Relations is the creation and maintenance of an organizations various

publics. In other words, it is usually being practice by the type of attention is being received or

other types of communications. In todays era, Public Relations are being practice by the use of

social media. It often occurs among women and girls. In the field of Public Relations, researchers

have statistically proven that more females are proactively involving themselves with every

position in the industry. The number of females being proactive in PR has increased, but there
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are several women who stated many executives that are males. Therefore, gender discrimination

is one reason why there is a wage gap between both sexes.

Annotations:

"Womens work and the gender pay gap: How discrimination, societal norms, and other

forces affect womens occupational choicesand their pay." Economic Policy Institute.

Web. 17 Mar. 2017.

The sources purpose was to prove how much women are being paid, which turns to be 79

cents for every dollar paid to men. I will be using this article to help me find the data on the

difference of wages between females and males. This article also helps determine the measures

of the effects that are in between occupations for male and females. On top of that, it gives me

information on how certain professions rely on the education of both sexes.

Marx, Wendy. "The Surprising Gender Wage Gap In PR." Fast Company. Fast Company,

24 Dec. 2014. Web. 17 Mar. 2017.

The sources purpose is stating the differences of wages that females are getting in comparison to

the males. I will be using this article in helping me with the counterarguments. This article has

stated how females are dominating all PR jobs than males, but ironically in this websites article,

they used evidence on how many females do not like working with other females. Also it

explains on how different males in PR work in comparison to females. Furthermore, it also gives

me more statistics on how much of increase of females have been dominating the industry.
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Commentary. "Public relations agencies are dominated by women. So why are all their

leaders men?" Quartz. Quartz, 08 Mar. 2016. Web.

This source is an article piece talking about how women have been dominating the field of public

relations. I will be using this source for any counterarguments that will be against me. Such as

arguments that involve any stereotypes and gender inequality. I will also be using the stories that

were used as examples to state my thesis throughout the process.

Public Relations: A role for women?

http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=nyscaproceedings

This source is a written article explaining the roles of women being involved in PR. I will be

using this source to state and prove that women are dominating the field of PR and also to

address gender issues and how they were disciplined in a work related environment. It also

provides more data and information on how much culture and power there is in the public

relations industry.