The American Association of Advertising Agencies is calling its “Transformation 2010†conference a “mash-up†of its previously standalone Media and Leadership conferences,
but there’s something else different about Madison Avenue’s annual meet-up: It’s composition of chromosome. There are significantly more pairs of XX chromosome gracing its stage.
“Eighteen women speakers, roughly one-out-of-three, marks the highest percentage and number of women in the history of 4A’s events,†reads a press release issued this morning
by Nancy Hill, the first XX president of the ad industry trade association.
Hill: Bringing Some XX To The AAAA