Contabilidade feita por elas: participação das mulheres alagoanas na profissão contábil

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the representation of Alagoas women in the accounting profession. For that, the descriptive research was chosen, using technical bibliographic and documentary procedures, adopting the quantitative approach, with deductive method. Data were collected on the website of the Federal Accounting Council, as well as the Regional Accounting Councils and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. With the obtained results, it was verified that of the total of the professionals with active registers 42,80% are women. The region with the largest number of women working in the accounting profession is the Southeast. It was identified that the state of Alagoas has 1.527 professional women in accounting with active records, being 22,86% technical and 77,15% accounting. It was also verified that, the state of Alagoas occupies the nine position in the accounting representation in the Northeast region. There is evidence of the need for new advances and expansion of female representation in the accounting area, with gender equity in the profession, including in the state of Alagoas.