Women in Accounting Rock!

In keeping with the upcoming Women's History Month, otherwise known as March, we would like to share some quick statistics from http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-accounting.

• Women are 60.9% of all accountants and auditors in the United States.
• In a 2011 study, women were half of newly hired accounting graduates at CPA firms, and 40% of all CPAs.
• The same study examined the overall number of women employees at the largest accounting firms. By firm, the percentage of employees that were women were:
  • 49.2% at Ernst & Young
  • 48.6% at PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • 48.3% at KPMG
  • 44.0% at Deloitte.
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• Don't even get us started on women accountants and their use of social media. *Hint, more than their male counterparts.
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• So......women in accounting are on the upswing.  How cool would it be if you knew some of these trailblazers.