#GoodRead | Cindy Gallop: ‘Advertising is dominated by white guys talking to white guys’
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"Cindy Gallop: ‘Advertising is dominated by white guys talking to white guys’":
Gallop, former president of the global agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) in New York and once one of the most senior women in advertising, now adds unconscious bias to the list of barriers she goes through when she gives talks on the ad industry’s gender gap. “Every female creative arriving at Cannes is given this book which basically says ‘don’t even bother because we don’t want to hear from you even if you manage to get to the rarefied heights’,” she says, rapid-fire and direct.