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 to analyse the relationships between the glass ceiling and...

Audit firms in the UK are currently striving to embrace a ‘Diversity’ agenda in their management control and recruitment processes. In spite of a clear commitment to diversity, as diversity policies roll out, the pace of change is slow, particularly at senior levels. This is the so-called...

This review paper argues that the institutions and sites of professionalization projects and regulatory processes matter. The institutions and locations where regulation takes place affect both the outcome of the regulatory process and the legitimacy of the rules and practices produced. Changes...