Table 2 Papers in the accounting research that use language and gender

From: New avenues of research to explain the rarity of females at the top of the accountancy profession

Authors

Title

Journal

Date

Area

Country sample

Methods

Duff A and Mladenovic R

Antecedents and consequences of accounting students’ approaches to learning: A cluster analytic approach

British Accounting Review

2015

Accounting Education

Australia

Language and gender are used as variables to control for assessing accounting teaching methods.

Edgley C, Sharma N and Anderson-Gough F

Diversity and professionalism in the Big Four firms: Expectation, celebration and weapon in the battle for talent

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

2016

Accounting Profession

The United Kingdom, the United States and Canada

Language is an institutional factor that explains the lack of diversity.

Belliveau M

Engendering inequity? How social accounts create vs. merely explain unfavourable pay outcomes for women.

Organization Sciences

2012

Accounting Profession

The United States

Accounting is seen as a language, and gender is a dichotomous variable.

Nouri H and Douglas Clinton B

Gender, media presentation, and concern with the correct use of words—testing a three way-interaction.

Accounting Education

2006

Accounting Education

The United States

Language and gender are used as explanatory variables.

Tan LM and Laswad F

Impact of prior content and meta-cognitive knowledge on students’ performance in an introductory accounting course

Pacific Accounting Review

2008

Accounting Education

New Zealand

Gender and language are determinants of teaching performance.

Borthick A and Clark R

Improving Accounting Majors’ Writing Quality: The Role of Language Analysis in Attention Directing

Issues in Accounting Education

1987

Accounting Education

The United States

Language and gender are variables.

 

Inside AICPA

Journal of Accountancy

1996

Accounting Profession

The United States

Language and gender are studied as variables.

Haynes K

Sexuality and sexual symbolism as processes of gendered identity formation. An autoethnography of an accounting firm.

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal

2013

Accounting Profession

The United Kingdom

Language is a variable to understand gendered power.

Jackling B and Anderson A

Study mode, general ability and performance in accounting: a research note

Accounting Education

1998

Accounting Education

Australia

Gender and language are variables that explain student performance.

Weil S, Oyelere P and Rainsbury E

The usefulness of case studies in developing core competencies in a professional accounting programme: a New Zealand study

Accounting Education

2004

Accounting Education

New Zealand

Language and gender are variables.