| Description |
1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgement of Sources -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Key terms, Firms, and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: Feminism, Capitalism, and Dependency -- Dependency, Capitalism, and the State -- Feminism, Women's Careers, and Capitalism -- Scope and Limitations -- Outline of the Book -- 2 Accounting Matters: Mapping Women's Underrepresentation in Accountancy -- Mystery and Professional Closure-the Making and Ascent of Accountancy -- Herstory: The Entrance and Rise of Women in the Accounting Profession |
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Professional Organization and Women's Representation -- Women's Advancement at Big-4 Firms -- Women's Representation and Advancement in Accounting Research -- Work-life Balance, Flexibility, and Motherhood -- Conclusion -- 3 Making Partnership in Accounting: Career Histories, Structures, and Relationships at Work -- Women's Career Progression in Germany -- The role of friendships at work in German small and medium-sized firms -- Relations with managers and career advancement in Big-4 firms in Germany -- Women's Career Progression in the United Kingdom |
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Making partnership in the Big-4 firms in the UK and the role of standardized career structures -- Making partnership in small and medium-sized firms in the UK and the role of ads and recruiters -- Managing Others and Developing Talent as Partners -- Managing others in Germany -- Managing others in the UK -- Conclusion -- 4 Sexism at Work -- ̀We are all equal, but women need to make a choice' -- Equal Opportunities in the Accounts in the United Kingdom -- ̀Taking it with a bit of humour': Dismissing or Problematizing Sexism at Work -- Time and Age -- Being Different at Work -- Conclusion |
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5 Mothering in Accounting -- Matricentric Feminism and Experiences of Difference -- The Maternal Body as Taboo at Work -- Mothering and Motherhood in Accounting -- Germany: the maternal body as social pollutant -- Germany: childcare as mother's care -- The UK: contracts and household economics -- The UK: reversing gender roles as good household economics -- Conclusion -- Between a rock and a hard place: motherhood as institution and the unencumbered norm -- Centring mothers in accountancy -- 6 Job In/security and Work Centrality -- Recessions and Reunification |
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The economy and entering the profession -- The economy, redundancies, and pay freezes -- Work Centrality and Work-life Balance -- Work, other life domains, and work-life balance -- Work stress, health, and fertility -- Conclusion -- 7 Gendered Hierarchies of Dependency, Feminism, and the Commodification of the Self -- The Cost of Embeddedness and the Cost of the Commodification of the Individual -- Feminist Visions of Equality -- Domesticity, Marriage, and the Family under Neoliberalism -- Resisting the Upside-down World in Feminist Visions of a Future under Capitalism -- Appendix |
| Summary |
Gendered Hierarchies of Dependency considers the underrepresentation of women at partnership level in Accountancy through a feminist lens, analysing interviews with female partners in Germany and the United Kingdom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Methodological Note |
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Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 1st, 2023) |
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Sex discrimination in employment -- Great Britain
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Sex discrimination in employment -- Germany
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Women accountants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Women accountants -- Germany -- Social conditions
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Partnership -- Great Britain
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Partnership -- Germany
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Partnership
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Sex discrimination in employment
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Economics.
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Industry.
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accountants.
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Germany
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191002137 |
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0191002135 |
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9780191767715 |
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0191767719 |
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9780198880967 |
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0198880960 |
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