A report published last July showed that none of the 100 biggest accounting firms in Australia has a managing female partner or chief executive.

A recent report takes this further when it was stated that salary and promotion opportunities in the accounting and finance sectors are anything but promising. In fact female accountants in Australia earn only 66% as much as their male colleagues. Although the report also exposed gender equality in America and Japan, Australia's percentage was 13% lower than that of Japan a country renowned for its traditional values.

It is therefore evident that a lot more work needs to be done in Australia before gender equality in accounting is achieved.
(April 13, p73)