<p>I was wondering if PR was for women. It’s over 75 percent women. Is it like nursing? Is it girly to go into PR?</p>
<p>If you like PR, go into PR and don’t worry about the gender ratio.</p>
<p>As long as you can accept the fact that you will not spend your Tuesday mornings discussing Monday night football with your colleagues, what’s wrong with being one of the few men in a mostly female office?</p>
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<p>If you do go into PR, make sure you employ your skills in the proper marketing niche. Because calling something “girly” may not go over too well with a certain segment of the population.
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<p>When I think of someone in PR, I think: clever, well tuned ear to trends, media-savvy, organized, with excellent people skills. Perhaps it’s that last characteristic that attracts women to the field? I don’t know but it shouldn’t stop you if that list describes your skill-set, too.</p>
<p>No, no, no… PR is not just a girls-only career. It’s a subset of marketing, which in addition to those traits mentioned by p3t above, also needs some good writers. Those are not skills only girls have, just like finance is not for guys only.</p>
<p>No, PR is not just for females, and neither is nursing.</p>
<p>Yes, PR is a branch off of Marketing. But, it’s more closely related to Journalism. Wherever you see someone identified as “spokesperson,” “press secretary,” “public information officer,” etc., they’re doing PR. </p>
<p>The goal of PR is to get a message out (and this is the important part) without Advertising. That’s writing press releases, sponsoring or organizing charities & events, advocating for or against regulations, etc. It’s also got a lot of “damage control” responsibilities. Think about any scandal or disaster and there is probably a PR person involved trying to preserve or repair a reputation. </p>
<p>In order to like a PR job you have to accept that most of what you want to accomplish is out of your control. If you like fixed, finite objectives and tasks then PR isn’t for you. Maybe that’s why men tend to stay away.</p>
<p>My male cousin has an awesome job as PR director for an NBA basketball team. Is that manly enough for you? Prior to that, had a job similar to Michael J. Fox’s in “Spin City.”</p>
<p>D graduated in May and is working in PR. She will be happy to discuss the results of the Monday night football game with you even though she is a woman. :)</p>
<p>In her office (she works for a firm) there are more women, but there are men as well. Small office about a dozen employees - 3 or 4 are men. One of her best friends is a guy who is currently a college senior and is a kick_ ss PR guy. Many of the alumni who came back to her school to present the real world of PR were very successful men.</p>
<p>All kinds of PR. Firm, non-profit, large scale, small scale. What are your interests?</p>
<p>I know plenty of men and women in PR. The two fields it seems to be adjacent to are journalism (sort of a one-way membrane – lots of former journalists in PR, not so many former PR people in journalism) and politics (a very porous border between PR and campaign work).</p>
<p>Yes. (10 characters) (But then the majority of people in the workforce are women, and the majority of medical doctors in training and women, which is a REALLY girly field - caring for people and all that girly stuff.)</p>
<p>Thank you all. I knew it was a stupid question. I just had to ask. How money is usually in PR</p>
<p>^ I’ve learned a very useful web site long ago. It’s called Google 
Just saying!</p>
<p>Fine to ask if a field is predominantly female but the term ‘girly’ suggests that you look down upon any field that might attract a lot of women. Is that really the impression you want to create?</p>
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<p>Consider this the OP’s first lesson in PR.</p>