... Intersubjectivity Feminism Gender Decolonisation Calls for the understanding and application of reflexivity in accounting research have been made since qualitative accounting began to proliferate, arguably from the 1990s (Covaleski and Dirsmith, 1990). Qualitative methodologies and methods in accounting...

...María Dolores Capelo Bernal; Pedro Araújo Pinzón; Warwick Funnell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address both the neglect of non-Anglo-centric accounting gendered practices beyond the predominant professional setting and the controversial roles of women and accounting in power...

... of this paper is to enquire into the diversity characteristics of boards of accounting journals. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a diversity framework that distinguishes between societal diversity and value of diversity, the paper examines two board characteristics: gender diversity...

...Colleen Hayes; Kerry Jacobs Purpose The purpose of this paper is to revisit the issue of the entry of women into the Anglo-Australian accounting profession in the Second World War and provide insights on the role that gender, class, and ethnicity played in mediating women’s relations...

...Shanta Shareel Davie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to complement and extend accounting studies on gender and post-colonialism by examining the interrelationship between accounting, gender and sexuality within an imperial context. Design/methodology/approach Archival materials enable...

.... In the first discursive representation, feminine gender is naturalized and mobilized by participants to support (quite oftentimes in a rather apparent positive way) the distinctive contributions that femininity can make, or cannot make, to the functioning of boards. In the second discourse (degenderizing...

..., but not evenly distributed across those specialisms. This paper aims to draw on the sociology of accountancy and feminist studies of the professions to show that specialisms have emerged through and, in turn, have been shaped and recreated by gender as well as other processes. Design/methodology/approach...

...Kathryn Haynes Purpose The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate sexuality and sexual symbolism within the organisational culture of an accounting firm to explore how it is implicated in processes of gendering identities of employees within the firm. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Garry D. Carnegie; Cheryl Lehman Purpose Transforming gender research in accounting is possible, desirable, and promising: the past few decades have included prescient work and expansive theories. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the legacy of the 1992 special issue “Fe[men]ists' account...

... on a review of published sources on accounting history and women's, gender and feminist history. Findings Whereas feminist historians and historians of gender boast substantial advances in research and transformative impacts on the wider discipline of history, similar momentum is less evident...

... in this special issue offer feminist approaches to enrich study in the area, and it is argued that gender is an element that should be embedded in research in accounting. Research limitations/implications This editorial is a selective review and is not intended as a comprehensive review of research...

...Jane Broadbent; Linda Kirkham; Lee D. Parker Purpose This paper sets out to investigate and critique the corpus of recent research into gender dimensions of strategic management and accounting processes with a view to establishing the current state of knowledge and offering both future research...

...Jane Broadbent; Linda Kirkham; Naoko Komori Purpose The purpose of this paper is to open up the Anglo‐centred argument in gender and accounting by exploring the relationship of women and accounting in a different social and cultural context. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws...

...Jane Broadbent; Linda Kirkham; Claire Dambrin; Caroline Lambert Purpose Women in public accounting firms are still proportionally much fewer in number in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men, whereas recruitment at junior level tends to be increasingly gender‐balanced. This paper aims...

...Jane Broadbent; Linda Kirkham; Kathryn Haynes Purpose This paper seeks to critique recent research on gender and accounting to explore how feminist methodology can move on and radicalise the gender agenda in the accounting context. Design/methodology/approach After examining current research...

... and Potter in 2000 and aims to augment our understanding of publishing patterns in the specialist international accounting history literature. gender; location of authors by gender; patterns of authorship in contributions by women; and location of women by country on the basis of English/non...

... of directors. The proportion of female directors was 11.0 percent for firms that did not include pictures of their boards and 14.5 percent for firms that included pictures of their boards in their annual reports. The difference in the gender mix of these two groups is significant (p = 0.0002...

...Sarah A. Reed; Stanley H. Kratchman; Robert H. Strawser Investigates the impact of locus of control and gender on the experiences and practices of accounting professionals. Also considers the impact of role overload, inter‐role conflict, and coping behaviour on these attitudes. Suggests...

... and on the accounting profession will be substantial once they achieve management positions in significant numbers. Accountants Canada Men Gender Public sector accounting Women Accountancy © MCB UP Limited 1993 ...

...Mary Jeanne Welsh Presents a review of the psychological contructions of gender and considers the implications of gender construction on gender research in accounting. Constructions of gender contain two competing biases: alpha bias, which is the tendency to exaggerate male‐female differences...