Since 2019 all the accountancy bodies, except CIMA (remains at a constant 36%), have increased their percentage of female members worldwide. AIA experienced the largest increase of two percentage points in this period mainly down to a 5.4% increase this past year. At 49% ACCA now has the highest percentage of female members of all the accountancy bodies by some way. ICAEW has the lowest percentage at 32%. For 2023 the overall percentage of female members worldwide was 40%.
The overall percentage of female students is 56%, helped by ACCA with 59% of its students being female (the highest). ICAS has the distinction of having the lowest percentage of female students. The worry will be the big fall year-on-year from 43% to 37%.
Check out more on our take on the FRC’s latest report in the new PQ magazine: https://issuu.com/pqpublishing/docs/pq_jan25_multi.
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