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Women Career Paths in Accounting Organizations:
Big4 Scenario
Adriana Tiron-Tudor *and Widad Atena Faragalla
Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 400084,
Romania; [e-mail]
*
Correspondence: [e-mail]; Tel.: [phone]
Received: 29 August 2018; Accepted: 15 October 2018; Published: 17 October 2018
Abstract:
In this paper, we analyze the gender issues that are present in the accounting profession,
and more precisely, on the career paths one could follow in the accounting profession and what
the underlying reasons are for each option. Our conclusions show that some of the factors that
influence women career paths are discrimination, motherhood, glass-ceiling, double standard and a
lack of visibility.