For the first time, women constitute over 10% of the partners at the nation's largest accounting firms, according to CPA Personnel Report's Annual Survey of Women in Public Accounting. This represents a growth of 54% over the past three years.
The study reveals that, on average, women make up 10.6% of the partnership ranks at the nation's 25 largest firms. The figure was just 6.9% in 1996, indicating a swift change of pace. The Big Five firms have about 912% female partners. At 15%, Plante and Moran of Southfield, Mich., has the greatest proportion of female partners, closely followed by Moss Adams of Seattle, Wash., at 14%.
Women account for roughly half of the firms' workforces and one out of two new accounting graduates. A copy of the survey can be purchased from Strafford Publications at (404) 881-1141 or http://www.straffordpub.com/accounting/index.html. *
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