Explaining Gender Inequity in the New Zealand Accounting Profession

Whiting, Rosalind H.; Wright, Christine

doi:10.1006/bare.2001.0161

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“…Similarly, within the accounting profession the historical operation of patriarchal and ingrained gender discrimination that discourages women from entering the workforce is well documented (see for example Kirkham 1992, Lehman 1992, Whiting and Wright 2001. Bourdieu (2001) identifies the central reason for patriarchal success as its ability to naturalise gender distinctions, where differing sexual and biological functions are used to justify different positions or identities and dictate different behaviours and roles that subsequently translate into wider social differences.…”

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Employability and higher education: contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development

Gracia

2009

Journal of Education and Work

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Employability and higher education: contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development

Gracia

2009

Journal of Education and Work

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“…Research carried out by Friedman & Greenhaus (2000) and Mesu et al (2013) showed that women who consider the family and work are important, is more likely to be in the managerial level positions. Although women have the same type of education as their male colleagues, they remain to be in low level type of jobs and have to fulfill the responsibility at home as a wife and mother (Whiting & Wright, 2001;Risman & Johnson-Sumerford, 1998;Cooper, Lewis, Smithson & Dyer, 2001;Kelly 1997;Blair-Loy, 2003). This article will discuss the strategies to sustain the dual earner in the workplace.…”

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The Sustainability of Dual Earner at the Workplace in Malaysia

Bakar¹,

Abdullah²

2013

ASS

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Malaysia has moved away from the sole breadwinner towards a dual breadwinner paradigm. Important criterion of success for such new paradigm is the integration of women and particularly of mothers, into the labor force. According to statistics compiled by the Statistics Department of Malaysia (1970Malaysia ( , 1980Malaysia ( , 1991Malaysia ( & 2003 and Malaysia 2006, about 30.8 percent of women make-up the labor force in 1970. The percentage started to increase to 35.1 percent in 1980, decreased slightly to 33.5 percent in 1991and increased to 36.7 percent in 2005. As for the male labor force, the pattern was the same, whereby the rate was 69.2 percent in 1970, decreased to 64.9 percent in 1980, increased again to 67.9 percent in 1991, but dropped to 63.3 percent in 2005. The demographic shifts have resulted from the economic changes that requires most families to have two incomes for economic viability and from the women's desire to have both an active and fulfilling family life as well as a career. Men have begun to do slightly more household and childcare tasks as women are involved in employment. This article will highlight the strategies to sustain the dual earner in the workplace.

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“…Walker (2008) provides a review of the extent to which accountancy historians have engaged with women's issues and reviews some important papers that examine the historical role of gender in the accountancy profession (Kirkham, 1992;Lehman, 1992;Kirkham and Loft, 1993;Wootton and Kemmerer, 2000) and the potential influence of feminist theory on accountancy. Another line of research documents women's participation and experiences in the profession and suggests that women face continuing gender discrimination (Haynes, 2008b;Kirkham, 1997;Whiting and Wright, 2001) and that motherhood and child-rearing present serious obstacles to women's promotion prospects (Barker and Monks, 1998;Gallhofer and McNicholas, 1998;Dambrin and Lambert, 2008). This line of research also suggests that the practices in audit firms reproduce gender ARTICLE PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1057DOI: 10.…”

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New avenues of research to explain the rarity of females at the top of the accountancy profession

Jeny¹,

Santacreu-Vasut²

2017

Palgrave Commun

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The rarity of females in leadership positions has been an important subject of study in economics research. The existing research on gender inequality has established that important variations exist across time and place and that these differences are partly attributable to the cultural differences regarding gender roles. The accounting research has also established that women are rarely promoted to the top of the Big Four audit firms (KPMG, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young). However, the majority of research in accountancy has focused on Anglo-Saxon contexts (the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia) or country case studies without explicitly considering the role that cultural variations may play. Because the Big Four are present in more than 140 countries, we argue that the accountancy research that attempts to explain gender disparities at the top of these organizations would benefit from considering cultural factors. Such research, however, faces a key methodological challenge-specifically, the measurement of the cultural dimensions that relate to gender. To address this challenge, we propose an emerging approach that uses the gender distinctions in language to measure cultural attitudes toward gender roles. The idea that language may capture gender roles and even influence their formation and persistence has been the focus of emerging research in linguistics and economics. To support our proposition, we follow two steps. First, we review the accounting research by performing a systematic query on the bibliographic databases of the accounting articles that study gender and language. Second, we present data regarding the diversity of the global boards of the Big Four and the diversity of the linguistic environments in which they operate. We find that half of the countries where the Big Four are present exhibit a sex-based grammatical system for their most-spoken language, while the other half of the countries do not exhibit this system. Our findings suggest that the use of language as a measure of culture is a novel approach in accounting research. We conclude by emphasizing some potential directions for future research, namely, studying the linguistic determinants of the rarity of females at the top of audit firms and exploring accountancy practices in countries with linguistically diverse environments, such as Canada or Belgium, among others. This article is published as part of a collection on the role of women in management and the workplace.

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Explaining Gender Inequity in the New Zealand Accounting Profession

Cited by 64 publications

References 39 publications

Employability and higher education: contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development

Employability and higher education: contextualising female students’ workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development

The Sustainability of Dual Earner at the Workplace in Malaysia

New avenues of research to explain the rarity of females at the top of the accountancy profession

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