History Vol io, No 1 - 2005 Accounting Business & Financial History Call for Papers (Special Issue) Women, accounting and finance In his study of investment in the nineteenth century, Preda comments that "Women are always excluded from financial discussions, on the explicit ground that they cannot understand investments". Certainly a number of nineteenth-century commentators treated women as likely to be victims of financial chicanery: "the widow, the clergyman and the reckless" were grouped as potential losers on the markets. This is consonant with the "separate spheres" view of women's history, seeing women as barred from finance as from other male domains. Though widely held, the "separate spheres" view has attracted some challenges. For some time there has been a recognition of the role of women in the accounting profession from the early twentieth century onwards. In the realms of bookkeeping, Connor has stressed the role of women in household accounting in the eighteenth century, while Walker has recently drawn attention to the extent to which women were encouraged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to use accounting in order to run the household thriftily and effectively. He has also pointed out the role played by women
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History Vol io, No 1 - 2005 Accounting Business & Financial History Call for Papers (Special Issue) Women, accounting and finance In his study of investment in the nineteenth century, Preda comments that "Women are always excluded from financial discussions, on the explicit ground that they cannot understand investments". Certainly a number of nineteenth-century commentators treated women as likely to be victims of financial chicanery: "the widow, the clergyman and the reckless" were grouped as potential losers on the markets. This is consonant with the "separate spheres" view of women's history, seeing women as barred from finance as from other male domains. Though widely held, the "separate spheres" view has attracted some challenges. For some time there has been a recognition of the role of women in the accounting profession from the early twentieth century onwards. In the realms of bookkeeping, Connor has stressed the role of women in household accounting in the eighteenth century, while Walker has recently drawn attention to the extent to which women were encouraged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to use accounting in order to run the household thriftily and effectively. He has also pointed out the role played by womenPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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