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Join the Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section

The Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section of the American Accounting Association has the overall objective of facilitating interaction among Association members regarding gender issues and worklife balance as they relate to accounting practice, research, and education.

Members of the GIWB Section are committed to:

• Promoting knowledge and encouraging research in gender issues and worklife balance by identifying areas in need of research, facilitating the exchange of ideas and findings, and providing opportunities for exposure of research results.
• Fostering opportunities to enrich the professional lives of all people, so that they may reach their full potential as scholars and as practitioners.
• Facilitating increased participation of underrepresented groups in professional conferences, committees, and editorial boards of publications.
• Providing a forum in which Association members and guests can discuss the impact of gender in the workforce and encouraging interdisciplinary exchanges between accountants and members of other learned groups.
• Increasing the awareness of the policies that assist all people in successfully combining career and family.
• Determining and exploring those areas in which accountants' unique financial expertise can improve the economic and social well-being of all people in contemporary society.