5 Ways To Get Ahead In Communications For Ambitious, Young Women

With additional inspiration from our favourite fictional heroines.

First things first, there is a disclaimer: this is not a thoroughly researched list. Scientists have not practiced this on rats. No SurveyMonkey was conducted.

Instead, this advice is based on my own career in communications and talking with experienced women in the field. Mainly my colleagues, who, yes, do tag me in work-based memes half the time, but they are still, clever, ambitious and successful young woman.

Second, a reasoning: I have focused on asking women because our experience in the workplace is different to that of men.

And this is something that has been researched, just check out Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency. There is an irrational pay gap between the sexes. And that’s just the statistic.

We know that women are new to the boardroom. We didn’t even get the right to vote until just over a…