Modernity, space-based patriarchy and global capitalism: implications for Syrian women accountants
| Autor: | Rania Kamla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Accounting and Business Research. 44:603-629 |
| ISSN: | 2159-4260 0001-4788 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00014788.2014.933401 |
| Popis: | This paper contributes to the current literature on gender, modernity, patriarchy and accounting by bringing insights into the experiences of women accountants in Syria: an Arab and predominantly Muslim country. By doing so, this paper enhances understanding of women's interrelationship with accounting beyond the Anglo-American context that currently dominates the research agenda on gender and accounting. Face-to-face interviews with 20 women accountants were carried out in Syria in 2008. This study reveals that in the context of global capitalism and patriarchy, factors of class, alienation, tradition and economic difficulties are contributing to the subordinated role of women in society in general and in the accounting profession in particular. The increased commercialisation of the accounting profession in the Arab world, including Syria, has resulted in socio-economic hierarchies and discriminatory practices, where interviewees spoke of discrimination based on class, sex and on the knowledge held. Fur... |
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