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Pitbull's Advertising Week appearance raises equality questions: 'How about female artistes?'

on Sep 27, 2019 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The Advertising Week New York wrap party featuring musician Pitbull has been accused of setting back the event’s push for gender equality by “objectifying women”.

Mr. Worldwide’s performance closing the event on Thursday 26 September with tracks including ‘Give Me Everything,’ ‘Timber,’ ‘Time of our Lives’ ‘I Know You Want Me’.

Pitbull’s schtic could have clashed with the motifs of panels including but not limited to: ‘The State of Women’s Representation in Advertising’, ‘Raising the Stories of Women Who Came Before Us,’ ‘Eyes on 2020: Fearless Female Voices Reshaping Media and Impacting the World’.

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Source: The Drum