The Women in Tax group and its plans to encourage career progression.
KEY POINTS
- Why are there fewer women in tax as practitioners progress up the career ladder?
- The Women in Tax group encourages talented employees and their employers to think about career development.
- The network provides regular breakfast meetings in London Yorkshire Bristol and Manchester.
- See here.
For several years the question in many organisations including accounting and tax practices law firms and industry has been: where have the women gone? The higher up the chain one goes the fewer women we see.
Although I do not have the answer one must first understand the reasons because there must be more than one. Many think it is that women leave to have a family but this represents only a small number. By understanding the...