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Woman’s Desire for Change in the Accounting Workplace: insights form Saudi Arabia

Woman’s Desire for Change in the Accounting Workplace: insights form Saudi Arabia. Abeer Alsalloom Dila Afrizzi Teerooven Soobaroyen University of Southampton. Remember. MA Thesis students – experience Moslem accountants in Scotland Moslem vs general accounting practices

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Woman’s Desire for Change in the Accounting Workplace: insights form Saudi Arabia

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  1. Woman’s Desire for Change in the Accounting Workplace: insights form Saudi Arabia Abeer AlsalloomDila AfrizziTeerooven Soobaroyen University of Southampton

  2. Remember • MA Thesis students – experience Moslem accountants in Scotland • Moslem vs general accounting practices • Woman and men had different experiences • Need for further work • Welcome this paper • Timely, significant and important • Cross perspectives (gender, culture, religion, profession)

  3. Gender and Profession • Movement of woman into profession • Intertwining of gender, culture etc. • Not unitary analysis • Barriers from Professionalisation • Preserve privilege • Gendered specializations • Discrimination institutionalized and reflects norms • Need to explore norms and culture (beyond western setting)

  4. Theoretical Approach • Feminist critical theory • Interpretative approach to understand the lived experience (theory or methodology?) • Material and cultural aspects all important to lived experience • Cultural differences between Saudi and the west • Local interpretations of Islam (the role of woman is more of an interpretation rather than a religion issue)

  5. Method • Interpretative approach • 42 Semi-structured interviews (28 female, 14 male) • Big four accounting firms

  6. Findings / argument • Profession feminizing • Double number of female to male graduates • But career opportunities limited • Practice and progression can be difficult (vague?) • Organizational level difficulties • Organizational practices influenced by gendered norms – client responses and resistance • Gendered and separated spaces • Codes of dress • Challenging and accommodating social expectations in society • Reaction to socially assigned roles

  7. Comments / Suggestions • Excellent timely paper • Focus problem / issue more clearly • Transition from literature to case / study needs a little more work • Theorization • Think about how to theorize problem – maybe Feminist critical theory already extensively deployed in this space. • Danger of constructing problem and solution out of the same box • Maybe clearer examination of notions of cultural values • Motivate case more clearly • Contribution to more general accounting understanding – not just Saudi Arabia. Theoretical significance of case to cultural values • Evidence • Consider presenting more of in-depth narratives – rather than cut-and-pate quotes and themes. Voice of informants need to be more evident • Thematic analysis focus on case, not on research problem/cultural values • Mobilize more clearly as evidence for an argument

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