WPP, IPG and Publicis Groupe pledged to pay travel costs for U.S. employees seeking abortions. White advertising agency CEOs declared that overturning Roe v. Wade will impact every part of Adland. Advertising Age launched a special section to track White shops’ and White brands’ reactions to the legal event.
It’s another example of aborted diversity—and contorted divershitty.
The industry is loading into the White women’s bandwagon and accelerating the rah-rah rhetoric.
Why are White holding companies acting as if they’re purpose-driven defenders of humanity? Aren’t travel costs for medical-related treatments standard healthcare coverage? It’s not as if employees will be asked to provide detailed expense reports.
Ironically, there’s plenty of evidence to show the inequities that people of color—particularly Black women—face from the healthcare system’s systemic racism. Yet they won’t benefit from Adland’s patronizing privileges, as they remain woefully underrepresented in the field.
Sorry, but stereotypical White advertising agency executives are more like philistines than philanthropists.
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