Male domination of the profession will one day be over
When I joined Pricewaterhouse-Coopers more than 30 years ago there were about 100 of us in that year’s graduate intake. Only two were women and I seem to remember that both of them left less than six months later. Not surprisingly there were no women partners at all. I’m fairly certain this was the situation across the profession then.
So the accountancy profession has come a long way in a single generation. At least 50% of new ACCA students each year are now female and as they qualify I’m sure that their numbers in the Top 50 firms will rise from 37% to nearer 50%. Similarly, I expect to see a rise in the number of female partners, but it may take another generation before as many as half of all partners are women.
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