Call to women accountants to break glass ceiling.

Published: Monday, December 13, 2010

The National Women's Council of Ireland applauds the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA) who recently recognised the need to address the gender balance issue in the accounting profession.

Speaking at the 2010 graduation ceremony in the Helix on Dec 11th, Eamonn Siggins, CEO of CPA, took this opportunity to challenge the emerging female graduates to strive to take on senior roles in the traditionally male-dominated profession.

"The gender balance in our conferring candidates is dominated on a ratio of 67 females to 33 males. This once-male dominated profession is changing rapidly and we at CPA expect to be the first professional accountancy body in Europe to achieve gender balance in our entire membership."

"From today we are at 53% male members to 47% female so the race is on. However we have had just one female president so far and three of our seventeen Council members are female so the challenge is there for you ladies to move into leadership positions within CPA'.

Our own head of finance and operations Maureen Kelly was one of the graduates at this years event.