Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section | American Accounting Association

Objectives

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 women's and men's professional lives so they may reach their full potential as scholars and practitioners; facilitating increased participation of women in professional conferences, committees, and editorial boards of publications.
Providing a forum in which Association men and women 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 professional women and men 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 women and men in contemporary society.
Determining and exploring those areas in which accountants' unique financial expertise can improve the economic and social well-being of women and men in contemporary society.

In order to meet its objectives, the Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section will sponsor the following activities, consistent with American Accounting Association policy:

Session(s) and appropriate programs at the annual and regional meetings of the Association.
Publication of a newsletter to disseminate information regarding members' research, forthcoming Association programs, accounting conferences of interests, topics for potential research, and other relevant issues.
Provide assistance to members for preparation of research, educational materials and programs, employment information, and other activities as needed.

Officers

President D. Larry Crumbley Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge Phone: 225-578-6231 Email: dcrumbl@lsu.edu	Past President Margaret Tanner Phone: 479-788-7804 Email: margaret.tanner@uafs.edu

President-Elect Arundhati Rao Towson University Phone: 410-704-3231 Email: arao@towson.edu	Secretary/Treasurer Bambi Hora University of Central Oklahoma Phone: 405-974-2156 Email: bhora@uco.edu

Vice President — Research Stanley Kratchman Texas A&M University (retd) Phone: - Email: skratchman2001@yahoo.com	Vice President — Practice Marsha M. Huber Youngstown State University Phone: 614-965-8787 Email: mmhuber@ysu.edu

Council Representative Don Ariail Kennesaw State University Phone: 678-915-7387 Email: dariail@spsu.edu

Editors

Webmaster Arundhati Rao Towson University Phone: 410-704-3231 Email: arao@towson.edu	Newsletter Editor L. Murphy Smith Murray State University Phone: 270-809-4297 Email: dr.murphy.smith@gmail.com

AAA Commons Editorial Board Member TBD

Committee Chairpersons

2015 National Meeting Program Coordinator L. Murphy Smith Murray State University Phone: 270-809-4297	Membership Coordinator Wayne Bremser Villanova University Phone: 610-519-4314 Email: wayne.bremser@villanova.edu

Coordinator of Regional Activities Susanne O'Callaghan Pace University Phone: 212-618-6427 Email: socallaghan@pace.edu

Regional Coordinators

Mid-Atlantic Wayne Bremser Villanova University Phone: 610-519-4314 Email: wayne.bremser@villanova.edu	Midwest Melvin A Lamboy-Ruiz Iowa State University

Northeast Yvette Lazdowski Plymouth State University Phone: 603-535-2524 Email: yjlazdowski@plymouth.edu	Ohio TBD

Southeast Don Ariail Kennesaw State University Phone: 678-915-7387 Email: dariail@spsu.edu	Southwest D. Larry Crumbley Louisiana State University Phone: 225-578-6231 Email: dcrumbl@lsu.edu

Western TBD