Gendered hierarchies of dependency : women making partnership in accountancy firms / Patrizia Kokot-Blamey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kokot-Blamey, Patrizia, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in employment--Great Britain.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Sex discrimination in employment--Germany.

Women accountants--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Women accountants.

Women accountants--Germany--Social conditions.

Partnership--Great Britain.

Partnership.

Partnership--Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Methodological Note

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-888096-0

0-19-176771-9

0-19-100213-5