Posts Tagged ‘Argentina’

The five A’s of the women in Argentine advertising

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

mujerThis new column from Buenos Aires, arose alter being a frequent and fan reader of Adwomen.

It intends to be an additional contribution to the world wide exchange of views and ideas, and to enlarge the net that allows us to get in contact and learn from other voices separated by many kilometers. It will provide ways of comparing and sharing coomon situations to women spread all over the planet.

To start  I think that it would be appropiate to describe at a glance how is the treatment of women in Argentine Advertising

There is a study performed in 2008 by the Starcom Media Group named “The five As of women in Argentine Advertising”.

Their conclusions were originated after carefully analizing more than 150 ads related to medicine, beauty, food, beverages, cleaning. Far away from household duties, such as kitchen, ironing, washing, advertising adressed to women is now characterized by stressing other values such as self-exigence, autonomy, autenticity, self sufficiency, originality.

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Has household products´ advertising changed?

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Detergents, electrical appliances… over decades household products have filled advert space at TV, radio and newspapers.

According to Andalusia Audiovisual Council’s report, cleaning products´ advertisements represent 4,53% of the total of broadcasted adverts. The same report shows, that 79% of adverts reproduce both female and male stereotypes.

Argentinian Bussiness University´s Design and Comunication Institute´s report says that housewives are represented in cleaning products, hygiene, and beauty advertisements.

Does it mean that modern household products´ ads keep the same line as the past ones?


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To be a leader… and a woman

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Analía Remedi, CEO of Hewlett-Packard for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzed the feminine leadership in the event of Human Resources, Human Capital Forum 2008, celebrated in Argentina. “Reading newspaper headlines, I was surprised by seeing in reiterated opportunities ‘A woman at the top of…’ - she reflected- How is this? A woman who leads a company is something to write as news, but not when the leader is a man?”.Remedi doesn’t think that there is a “feminine leadership”, but she differentiated innate characteristics from each gender. According to her, women are “intuitive, owners of a developed emotional intelligence, capable to be related more in an horizontal than in a vertical way, good in communication, productive, with capacity to assume many tasks simultaneously, enthusiastic and grateful for what they do”.

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