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1949

Four Women From Both Account and Creative Promoted to VPs

McCann increased its percentage of female officers from zero to 10% in one fell swoop when it promoted four women to VP status in late 1949, warranting both Time magazine and New York Times coverage. The four were copy group heads Margot Sherman and Alberta Hays, account executive Florence Richards, and Radio-TV Department executive producer Dorothy Barstow McCann.