Six Ad Women Who Have Come a Long Way

In 2014, Jean Kilbourne, creator of the 1979 documentary "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women," told Ad Age, "It astonishes me it's taken so long for others to follow in Dove's footsteps [with its 'Campaign for Real Beauty]. ... There's been so little in that vein in the last decade. Traditional advertising has remained so sexist. In many ways it's worse than when I started looking at it years ago. ... Given that, ads like these, even though they're not perfect, are a step in the ri