Publicis Groupe has placed Saatchi & Saatchi chairman Kevin Roberts on a ‘leave of absence’ after he told a publication that the gender diversity debate is over.
Roberts said many women are content never to reach leadership roles because they lack the “vertical ambition” of men in an interview Business Insider.
The comments were made after the publication pointed out that all six holding company chief executives are male and that while 46.4 per cent of the ad industry is female, only 11.5 percent of creative directors are.
In the interview, published on Friday, Roberts said the “debate is all over” about gender diversity in the advertising industry and that rather than holding ambitions t
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