“Helping them to forget..”: the organizational embedding of gender relations in public audit firms

Anderson‐Gough, Fiona; Grey, Christopher; Robson, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.aos.2004.05.003

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“…Consistent with previous studies of gender and organisational practices in accounting, the study is performed at the micro-level (Covaleski et al, 1998;Anderson-Gough et al, 2005;Kornberger et al, 2010). Our focus is on exploring commonplace practices in a single occupational group.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…239-240) contend that 'not to be a networker, is to face almost an abyss -the pure negation of selfhood implied by being a 'nobody''. The informalism of male networks constructed on the basis of shared interests, such as sport and drinking, and their resultant discourses, may serve to exclude and alienate women (Anderson-Gough et al, 2005;Collinson & Hearn, 1994).…”

Section: Essentialism Role Distribution and Task Allocationmentioning

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Gender essentialism and occupational segregation in insolvency practice

Joyce

Walker

2015

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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Advances towards egalitarianism in professional recruitment may be offset by processes of occupational re-segregation. Drawing on gender theory this paper investigates horizontal segregation in the UK insolvency profession, as revealed through the lived experiences of female and male practitioners. It is shown that horizontal segregation pervades at different levels of practice and is undergirded by various elements of gender essentialism. Physical essentialism explains why insolvency practice has been traditionally gendered male. Interactional essentialism combines with the management of work-life balance to define the subfields of corporate and personal insolvency as masculine and feminine respectively. Gender essentialist assumptions also pervade the distribution of roles and the allocation of work tasks. Networks are identified as arenas for the reproduction and perpetuation of occupational segregation. The findings indicate the continuing potency of gender in everyday professional life, and suggest the limitations of diversity-orientated policies and the complexities of formulating transformative agendas.

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Gender essentialism and occupational segregation in insolvency practice

Joyce

Walker

2015

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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“…However, the propensity toward developing informal networks seems to vary between female and male service professionals. Empirical findings seem to suggest that high-level male service professionals have 'better' informal networks at their disposal -comprising of stronger, and higher level peers and (potential) clients -and invest more time in client relationship development compared to their female counterparts, who often spend more time on developing the quality of their content (Anderson-Gough et al, 2005). In this way, a strong network of male professionals sometimes trumps higher quality service delivery provided by their female counterparts (Ciancanelli, Gallhofer, Humphrey, & Kirkham, 1990;Dambrin & Lambert, 2012).…”

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“…For instance, Anderson-Gough et al (2005), Metz and Tharenou (2001) and Singh and Vinnicombe (2001) suggest that informal social networks are vital for both men and women in order to succeed. However, the propensity toward developing informal networks seems to vary between female and male service professionals.…”

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“…However, studies have also established that the development of informal client contact is addressed differently among male versus female service providers, for instance, in terms of their networking styles and the prioritization of professional content versus socially oriented efforts (Anderson-Gough, Grey, & Robson, 2005;Dambrin & Lambert, 2012). Building on this strand of research and drawing on Ibarra (1992), we distinguish two types of networking styles: expressive networking and instrumental networking.…”

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Instrumental client relationship development among top-ranking service professionals

Taminiau

Ferguson

Moser

2016

The Service Industries Journal

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Informal client contact forms a crucial part of the daily routine of service professionals, in particular among top-ranking professionals working for consultancy and accountancy firms. In this paper, we investigate how 34 service professionals develop informal client contact, by studying their networking styles. Our study shows many similarities in informal client contact between two groups of service professionals grouped by gender, but we also found subtle differences in what we coin instrumental and expressive relations. Contrary to gender stereotypes, we found that female service professionals tended toward instrumental networking styles, using professionalism and distance and allowing the high quality of their work compensate for network deficits, contingent upon their clients' gender. Male service professionals drew on expressive relations to develop emotional bonding with their male clients in particular, but nonetheless toward instrumental purposes. Our study contributes to service industries literature by theoretically and empirically establishing the different informal networking styles between top-ranking service professionals, and the role of emotional bonding in particular. In doing so, the paper helps to better understand the intricacies of informal client contact as a critical dimension of the professional services industry. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Gender Audit

Conteh

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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The term gender refers to the cultural, social, economical, historical, and designation of roles of men and women with associated power differential implications that span across institutions, families, legal and religious systems, and beliefs. Gender itself is a social construct, hence gender audit assesses socially constructed gender stratification gaps including policies, service provision, data collection, coordination, and monitoring of structures that limit the participation of women.

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“Helping them to forget..”: the organizational embedding of gender relations in public audit firms

Cited by 275 publications

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Gender essentialism and occupational segregation in insolvency practice

Gender essentialism and occupational segregation in insolvency practice

Instrumental client relationship development among top-ranking service professionals

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