In recent years public relations scholars and practitioners alike have expressed concern about the potential for a decline in the status of public relations as women are rapidly Ouu~urnberiIlg men in the field. Athough it is disturbing to think that the presence of women can devalue any occupation, in another sense this is a good problem to have. For the first seven decades of its existence, relatively few women worked in formal public relations, and the number in executive positions was minuscule. For a woman to serve in the top management of an opinion research firm, much less one that administered to heavyindustry accounts, was nearly unthinkable during the 1950s and 1960s-but A. Jane Stewart did just that.