Gender issues

Female representation at the upper ranks of accounting has been improving in recent years, but there are still inequities.

From Women’s History Month to International Women’s Day, March offers a time to celebrate and honor powerful women, including women in the accounting profession.

The Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance's yearly poll invites firms to share their data on female leadership, diversity and representation.

Female chief financial officers are more likely to give concise responses, backed by numbers, than their male counterparts, new research shows.

The Philadelphia firm announced that its leadership will consist of all women and non-founding shareholders for the first time in its 31-year history.

The state society honored emerging and experienced leaders across the state.

For Eide Bailly, gender diversity in leadership started with crunching the numbers

Rumbi Bwerinofa-Petrozzello, president of the New York State Society of CPAs, is hoping to make accounting a more diverse profession, as the first woman of color to hold the position in the NYSSCPA’s nearly 125-year history.

The 2021 Accounting MOVE Project issued its annual report on female representation and leadership in accounting.

Women have achieved the milestone of 32% of partners and principals, in aggregate, for the 41 firms that participated this year in research by AFWA's Accounting MOVE Project.