Motherhood: The key to the glass ceiling ? the case of the big four in France

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Motherhood: The key to the glass ceiling ? the case of the big four in France

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Dambrin, Claire ()
Lambert, Caroline ()

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Women in public accounting firms are still proportionally much fewer in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men, whereas the recruitement at a junior level tends to be more and more gender balanced. The aim of this paper is to propose ana analysis of the mechanisms that explain the barriers encountered by auditor mothers in their hierarchical progression within the Big Four in France.

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Paper provided by Groupe HEC in its series Les Cahiers de Recherche with number 862.

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Date of creation: 14 Mar 2007
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J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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NEP-ACC-2007-03-17 (Accounting & Auditing)
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