Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18759
Title: 'Doing gender' in a regional context: Explaining women's absence from senior roles in regional accounting firms in Australia
Contributor(s): Adapa, Sujana  (author)orcid ; Rindfleish, Jennifer M  (author); Sheridan, Alison J  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2015.05.004
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18759
Abstract: While the majority of accounting graduates have been women for 15 years, women remain underrepresented in senior roles in regional accounting firms. This paper explores women's absence from senior roles in small and medium sized accounting firms in regional Australia. The intersectionality of their regional context and the gender stereotyping of the women in the study exacerbate their chances of being absent from senior roles in regional accounting firms. Drawing on the topology of 'doing gender', we show how gender is enacted through structures, hierarchies, identity and can be flexible and context specific. Thirty-one interviews with accountants from small and medium sized accounting firms in regional New South Wales were conducted. Results suggest 'doing gender' continues to be reinforced and reproduced as women's aspirations are constrained by the day-to-day practices shaping expectations about women in regional small and medium sized accounting firms. The internalization of gender stereotypical beliefs about what women can do intersects with the regional and small to medium size of the accounting firms in the study to entrench a specific type of disadvantage for women. We discuss the ways that doing gender can be subverted or redone, in order to challenge the status quo and open up more pathways for women to progress into senior roles in regional accounting firms.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Critical Perspectives on Accounting, v.35, p. 100-110
Publisher: Academic Press
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1095-9955
1045-2354
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 150304 Entrepreneurship
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 350704 Entrepreneurship
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 900202 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 110302 Professional, scientific and technical services
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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