Gender Inequality In Accounting

Accounting is said to be the language of business and if you know how to read accounting records, you can predict a business’s future (Piper 1-2). Accounts are needed in any business or company to help with financial statements. A degree and profession as an accountant will lead to a middle-class life and an occupation with potentially many benefits but unfortunately there is a possibility of facing gender inequality. My specific career path will require at least a bachelor’s degree in accounting which should only require four years of higher education. Once I receive this degree, I can work as an accountant and be paid a decent salary for moderate living and I have the opportunity to pursue certification as a Public Accountant. It may not …show more content…
Gender discrimination and inequality can exist as a student. A study conducted on 19 introductory textbooks for accounting examined certain college textbooks for gender discrimination. The researchers carefully examined the male and female examples used in the textbook and how the examples were portrayed in business and private conditions. The study concluded that gender roles and gender stereotypes were replicated throughout the textbooks and they conveyed women as having a responsibility toward home and career. Females in the textbook situations were often given stereotypical and low-status roles. The men in the textbooks were only portrayed as having a duty toward their careers. This is significant because “these stereotypes help to reinforce and perpetuate the glass ceiling that prevents women from participating fully in corporate America (Tietz 476).” On average, 79% of partners in accounting firms are male, nonetheless 45% of the workers are female (Moore 41-42). Female accountants still face discrimination because of the lack of women in higher leadership positions. It is essential to have a diversity of gender in accounting firms since the clients are diverse. According to Shannon Gardner when discussing her own professional experience claimed that implementing diversity in accounting firms, support matching values with clients and as a result, be more competitive in the marketplace (Gardner 56). The lack of equality is harmful for all workers, not just the females. Being aware of these issues and why they are happening is vital if I were to pursue this career. Likewise, I must be mindful of discrimination as early as in an introductory accounting classes and there that there are few female owners of accounting