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 and family life, particularly when women have children....

Aims to evaluate critically the potential insights of the work of Hélène Cixous and related feminist writers for the analysis of accounting, including environmental and green accounting. Such a potential is highlighted in Cooper (1992). It is initially suggested that the feminist writings do...

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 and family life, particularly when women have children....