[jel247thoe]

From my experience, most of the corporate accounting departments I’ve seen make up more women than men, even always assuming to be more women with the minority if at all that are men. Further, as a straight man myself, the men typically aren’t your masculine types either if you understand what I mean. After years of doing accounting in these types of environment and not feeling like any of these places want me to stay in the long-run for this being one factor along with not having the interest in doing monthly accounting cycles and not having the skill to focus on so many details while multi-tasking on different things that women tend to be better at, I feel this isn’t the right fit.

Does anybody agree with me about the people that tend to make up accounting departments?
Does anybody also agree with me that with accounting jobs, women tend to be better with handling all the details and multi-tasking? I don’t feel strong in this area as it also doesn’t interest me during bouts of times when work doesn’t require critical thinking.

Thank you.

[Missy]

My experience has been that there are more women than men but almost every manager I've had in 25+ years has been a man and more of the staff roles have been women. Most corporate accounting is repetitive and almost always requires multi tasking. Have you considered cost accounting, project management or financial analysis instead of financial accounting?

Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
Finance/Admin/HR Manager

[jel247thoe]

I have been exploring my options. Thank you for your advice.

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