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Accounting for gender equality

In: Handbook of Accounting in Society

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  • Ulrike Marx

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Organizing is almost unthinkable without accounting and quantification. With gender equality being acknowledged as a positive social value we witness an increasing institutionalization of it. These developments seem to rely heavily on management and accounting knowledge and expertise. Drawing on governmentality studies this chapter describes some trajectories of accounting for equality in a European context. It brings together literature from social studies of accounting that investigate the relationship between accounting and politics and more recent developments of an increasing reliance of indicators in governance. It introduces work on the biopolitics of gender and the implementation of gender budgeting in a European Union context to call for critical reflection on social accounting projects.

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  • Ulrike Marx, 2024. "Accounting for gender equality," Chapters, in: Hendrik Vollmer (ed.), Handbook of Accounting in Society, chapter 14, pages 194-208, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21501_14
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