TY - JOUR
T1 - Broadening the umbrella of women’s leadership and public relations
T2 - an ethnographic case study of a women’s political leadership development program
AU - Madden, Stephanie
AU - Levenshus, Abbey
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University [Page Legacy Scholar Grant].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study offers a rare ethnographic lens into a political training program’s efforts to develop women’s leadership communication as a public relations process. Drawing from participant observation, interviews, and documents, findings indicate the importance of developing a leadership mind-set and authentic leadership communication rooted in intersecting identities, tensions surrounding authentic relational communication and the importance of building cohort-based supportive communities for women leaders. By broadening the umbrella of who counts as women leaders in public relations, the study opens additional contexts (political training programs) and concepts (vulnerability) for the field.
AB - This study offers a rare ethnographic lens into a political training program’s efforts to develop women’s leadership communication as a public relations process. Drawing from participant observation, interviews, and documents, findings indicate the importance of developing a leadership mind-set and authentic leadership communication rooted in intersecting identities, tensions surrounding authentic relational communication and the importance of building cohort-based supportive communities for women leaders. By broadening the umbrella of who counts as women leaders in public relations, the study opens additional contexts (political training programs) and concepts (vulnerability) for the field.
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U2 - 10.1080/1062726X.2021.2015354
DO - 10.1080/1062726X.2021.2015354
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121720384
SN - 1062-726X
VL - 33
SP - 168
EP - 184
JO - Journal of Public Relations Research
JF - Journal of Public Relations Research
IS - 3
ER -