Advertising industry figure Jane Evans will tour Australia in May for a series of talks presented by independent adland movement Mavens and industry recruiters No Sunday Blues.
Evans will speak at INNOCEAN Australia in Sydney on May 21 and HERO agency in Melbourne on May 28.
Her career started as a junior art director at London agency Leagas Delaney, and was the first woman in the creative department three times over her first decade.
Her career credits include launching Microsoft Word, working on Sydney's Olympic bid and creating some of the first ads to show a divorced couple, an unmarried couple living together and men doing the laundry.
"Look around the Australian advertising industry and you'll see that experienced women role models, especially those over sixty, are rare as roo eggs," said Leah Morris, founder of Mavens.
“Jane Evans is punk as f**k and it’s really refreshing. She is exactly what this industry needs more of.”
The tour will cover how midlife women can go from invisible to invaluable in advertising, algorithmic bias via the #FairnessInTheFeed campaign with Cindy Gallop, and Evans' community of matriarchs, The 7th Tribe.
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