The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2019, 1(3); doi: 10.25236/FSST.20190312.
Ruosi CHEN, Jingyi DING
1. City College of Science and Technology, Chongqing University, 402167, China
2. Société d’expertise comptable - CAUDEC
During the recent year, although the female partner rate in big four has an obviously increases (INSEE 2015), women still under-represent in accounting firm. The purpose of this paper makes people understand that women have not been fully utilized in human resources by studying the gender imbalance of management positions between man and women, and women play a positive role to organization in term of management. This paper examines the three main reasons of fewer women in high position and explains importance of gender diversity to organization performance. In order to achieve the objective, using questionnaire. The entire respondent comes from big four and local accountant firm. The research further explores the ability of the female accountant how to balance her work and family life.
Gender balance, auditing, accounting, gender stereotype
Ruosi CHEN, Jingyi DING. How to improve gender balance in accounting profession. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2019) Vol. 1 Issue 3: 74-85. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.20190312.
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