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Accounting By Women: Fear, Favour And The Path To Professional Recognition For Australian Women Accountants, K. Cooper
Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers
This paper traces the campaign by women in Australia to gain admission to accounting bodies. The opposition to female membership of accounting bodies is set within the context of views of the abilities and place of women at the time. In general, women had neither the nature nor the intelligence for the commercial world. Even if women were mentally equipped for commercial work, this was contrary to nature because women should be companions to men not competitors. However, two crises saw the beginning of the acceptance of women as members of accounting bodies. One such crisis was the monetary impact …
Mary Addison Hamilton, Australia’S First Lady Of Numbers, K. Cooper, A Kurtovic
Mary Addison Hamilton, Australia’S First Lady Of Numbers, K. Cooper, A Kurtovic
Faculty of Business - Accounting & Finance Working Papers
In the early 20th century, the restriction of women entering the accounting as well as other professions was common, yet Australia’s first lady of numbers, Mary Addison Hamilton (Addie) has also been Australia’s forgotten pioneer. Addie became the first woman admitted to membership of a recognised professional accounting body in the British Commonwealth during a time when women’s admission to the accounting arena was strongly discouraged. This paper will attempt to explain why it is that Addie’s outstanding achievement has gone unnoticed by the modern day accounting profession rating no mention in Australian accounting history literature. Was it a case …