g skills and appropriate responses are integral to successful career building in public relations.
In Women Like Us, Liz Roman Gallese charts the trials and success of the Harvard Business School Class of 1975. Gallese's interest is in studying the correlation between women's ambition, career strategies, and the attainment of power. Unlike public relations which is ordered around a communal sharing of power rather than its direct manipulation, the "milieu of management" is based on:
not so much excellence at a particular task, but the pursuit of sheer power; not so much the results of any one individual's effort, but an individual's ability to relate to others up and down a chain of command. Indeed, the very point of management becomes not the product, but the process, the struggle for that next rung on the ladder (Gallese, 1985, p. 17).
Gallese's research into women's relatively poor track record in management offers insight into why women have been so much more successful in public relations. Gallese contends that a environment where pla
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