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What I remember most about working in advertising was the pelvic power tilt. It was everywhere you looked. Men in advertising who were into power did it; women didn't, because they weren't in power and knew they had no show of getting it. Men sat with their legs wide apart and their crotch tilted to display their lunch. It was, in a word, advertising; an assertion of dominance like a tom cat's spraying. And yes, it was kind of gross. I thought of the pelvic power tilt this week as a big international advertising jock bit the dust – and...

A well-known ... worldwide creative director at WPP Group resigned his position ...over remarks he made at an industry event about female creative executives. The comments, by Neil French, 61, drew attention to the absence of women at the highest levels of the creative side of advertising.... Mr. French told an audience... women "don't make it to the top because they don't deserve to"... His comments infuriated... Nancy Vonk... of Ogilvy Toronto, [wrote] a column for a Web site denouncing his comments. ...Ms. Vonk said[:}..."It's undeniable that women aren't getting far enough in the creative part of agencies,..." .. When...