...Patrizia Kokot Purpose – This paper aims to highlight differences in women's experiences of advancement to partnership in accountancy firms in Germany and the UK and consider the ways in which such differences may be constituted by the institutional context in which they occurred. Design...

... social justice. Research limitations/implications Tying the current rhetoric of global neo‐liberalism to contemporary feminist struggles, the paper illustrates the significant consequences of economic globalization on women, and accounting's connection. As there is no single story regarding gender...

... as a symbol of power capable of overriding assumptions about the relative dominance of the male in business negotiations, together with assertive behaviour on the part of the female. Research limitations/implications The poem underlines and challenges the tendency of some men to assume that women have...

...Sonja Gallhofer; Catriona Paisey; Clare Roberts; Heather Tarbert Purpose Men and women are now being admitted to membership of the major UK professional accountancy bodies in approximately equal numbers. This trend has focused attention on the ways in which professional accountants combine careers...

...Jane Broadbent; Linda Kirkham; Stephen P. Walker Purpose This paper aims to make an assessment of the contribution made by accounting histories of women produced since 1992 and the current state of knowledge production in this subject area. Design/methodology/approach The study is based...

...Stephen P. Walker The study combines data from the electronic version of the transcribed census enumerators’ books and documentary sources to analyse the entry of women to bookkeeping in late nineteenth century Britain. The paper explores the chronology of the feminisation of bookkeeping...

...Garry D. Carnegie; Cheryl S. McWatters; Brad N. Potter This study focusses on the participation of women in the development of the specialist international accounting history literature. Based on an examination of the three specialist, internationally refereed, accounting history journals...

... by the Japanese household. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Homes Japan Women Cross‐cultural research Social accounting Environmental accounting Accounting at home has become a very topical and lively research issue (for example, see Walker, 1998; Llewellyn and Walker, forthcoming; Walker and Llewellyn...

... a feminist lens” is to improve women′s economic condition; however, as a by‐product of this rethinking, “feminist economics provides an improvement of economic theory and policy” (Strober, 1994, p. 143). The feminist philosopher of science, Harding (1991) , describes three main feminist tendencies towards...

... with their current positions and greater intentions to search for alternative opportunities. Suggests that the accounting environment may still be inhospitable for certain women attempting to realize multiple work and family obligations. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Accountancy Gender Job satisfaction USA...

...Ronald A. Davidson; J. Thomas Dalby Describes the personality characteristics of a sample of female accountants from public accounting firms in a large Canadian city. Comparisons are made with the general population of all women, with male accountants, between accountants in firms of different...

...Tony Tinker Analyses article by James (1992). Suggests apparently hostile term judgements on women hide moral judgements. Questions ideologies of neutrality and independence in accounting. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Income tax Legislation USA Women Accounting ...

...Theresa Hammond; Leslie S. Oakes Uses Harding′s 1986 book. The Science Question in Feminism,as a framework for examining the implications of some feminisms for accounting. First explores feminist empiricism which challenges the exclusion of women from prominent professions. Second...

... fields are simultaneously discovering how power‐knowledge relations are deeply embedded within them. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Accounting theory Feminism Women ...

... to illuminate the discrepancies in the application of justice and the obfuscation of Congress′ original intentions. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Income tax Legislation USA Women Gender ...

... for feminist political praxis. The concluding argument is that an over‐reliance on Cixous and associates could leave us with a less than adequate critique of green accounting. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Accounting theory Women Feminism Environment ...

...Christine Cooper Critiques article by Hammond and Oakes (1992). Emphasizes political importance of discussion of feminist empiricism for accountancy practitioners of both sexes. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Accounting theory Women Feminism ...

... be accomplished is through a feminist reconstruction of organization theory. Through inspections of the historical origins of bureaucracy and the history of its interpretation we may find that it is not efficiency which pervades, marginalizing women facing other claims on their time. Instead it may...

...; and beta bias, which is the tendency to minimize or ignore differences. Both biases have disadvantaged women in the work place. A presumption of female‐male personality traits provides a rationalization for restricting women′s work roles. However, arguing that gender differences are trivial ignores real...

... a feminist accounting may (or may not) wish to be based; both Anglo‐American and French feminist traditions are engaged. Also examines institutional questions regarding the conditions of possibility for various kinds of theorizing. Accounting theory Women Feminism Literature © MCB UP Limited 1992 ...