Pacific Accounting Review: Volume 20 Issue 2

Gender counts: “work”, “life” and identity in accounting practice and education

This paper aims to introduce a special issue, consisting of a selection of papers on the subject of gender, paid employment and life issues in accounting practice and education.

University management practices, accounting, gender and institutional denial

This paper sets out to examine the problematic gendered effects of the spread of an accounting mentality in university performance appraisal, academic awareness that accounting…

The emotional labour of accountancy

This paper seeks to suggest that the typical western workplace culture, especially in the accounting profession, is predicated on a masculine, emotion‐free template, and that this…

Being President, being myself

This paper aims to recount the author's career trajectory to date, and the choices, challenges and opportunities she has faced along the way.

New Zealand chartered accountants' work/family strategies and consequences for career success

The purpose of this study is to investigate the strategies that New Zealand chartered accountants use to combine work and family responsibilities, and to relate these strategies…

“No time to stand and stare”: Imagery of flexible work arrangements in Australian professional accounting journals

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the imagery of flexible work arrangements in professional accounting employment, as presented in the Australian professional…

Work and work‐family values in accountancy: A person‐culture fit approach

An important aim of this paper is to ascertain the extent to which students held realistic expectations about the work cultures they were soon to enter. The paper also aims to…

Exploring ourselves: Exploiting and resisting gendered identities of women academics in accounting and management

The aim of this paper is to examine gendered identities of women academics by exploring the interplay and exploitation of internal and external, personal and academic, identities…

Women of ICAS Reaching the Top: The Demise of the Glass Ceiling

Special issue on Gender and accounting revisited

9th Annual Conference Asian Academic Accounting Association