When I was working in London, the majority of people working in the
online industry were men. Events would be golf and football dominated, and
nights out would inevitably end at strip clubs once the boys had managed to
shake off any clients or colleagues who might not agree with expensing lap
dances, but every now and then you would stumble across a female CEO or Senior
Director who was working hard to climb the ladder.
In Singapore, it seems
to be an entirely male dominated work force. There’s two women heading up the region
for Google, but from the numerous mixer events and social events I’ve been to,
that seems to be pretty much it. There are a handful of much younger women
kicking around in the agency world, but there’s no one making waves up at the
top level of the main online companies, and having just realised over the past
week that there’s no females beyond Director level at my current company, it
concerns me.
This Friday, three
hours of my day were spent at a council meeting for online advertising. The
purpose of the meeting was to arrange, nominate and coordinate committees for
specific areas of the industry. I’m not sure how it happened – although I am
fairly sure that I can blame being massively outnumbered by clueless boys who
think that talking loudly makes them right, but I somehow walked out of the
session as Vice-Chair of the biggest committee going. Well, I suppose that’s
a start…
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