Marketing to women: An introduction

This paper discusses advertising to women and the female audience. The following points are highlighted: the position of women in society has changed profoundly in recent years, men and women have statistically different cognitive styles, and different female cohorts respond to ads in very different ways.

Marketing to women: An introduction

Joseph Clift and Roderick WhiteWarc

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Executive summary

Some of the most memorable and effective ad campaigns of recent years have been targeted to the female consumer. But, in the main, the creative content of female campaigns does not properly reflect women's changing role in society. Moreover, female-friendly advertising, while more prevalent than advertising to men, remains rare; the large majority of ads remain non-gender-specific.

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