Purpose – Concomitant with the trend towards specialisation in UK accountancy and the rise of relatively separate formal spheres of professional work along formal specialisms such as tax, audit and management consultancy, women entered the profession in unprecedented numbers, but not evenly...

Purpose – Concomitant with the trend towards specialisation in UK accountancy and the rise of relatively separate formal spheres of professional work along formal specialisms such as tax, audit and management consultancy, women entered the profession in unprecedented numbers, but not evenly...

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the corpus of gender research in accounting journals, with the overall aim of evaluating the extent to which it has contributed to our understanding of the organization of accounting, and its social and organizational functions. A critical analysis...