One Big 4 Firm Wishes All the Ladies a Happy National Pancake Day
Today is National Pancake Day, and in order to build a better working world, EY (probably) thinks that it should include this recipe for “Brain Booster Pancakes” for all the women whose brains are “6% to 11% smaller than men’s” and “absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup so it’s hard for them to focus.” […]
EY Thinks Women Are a Bunch of Dumb Sluts: Report
Yesterday morning, browsing /r/accounting as I often do before our weekly conference call in which I pull ideas for the week’s content out of my ass, I came across a fresh post about an EY training seminar that supposedly implied women have “pancake brains” and need to be told not to flash the goods in […]
Report: Big 4 Audits Are Rarely Led By Women
On this, the most sacred of #AuditorProud days, we thought we’d tackle the recent CFA Institute report [PDF] that shows women are woefully underrepresented as lead engagement partners. This data is available thanks to AuditorSearch and a hard-fought battle over the years to require partner naming on audit reports. Thankfully, that tattooing the client’s name […]
EY Got a Bunch of Old White Guys to Talk About Women in the Workplace
Here we go with this crap again: Top tips from #EY’s male leaders on how to make the gender mix work #BBWW http://t.co/NcZDDKdW4w — EY (@EYnews) July 1, 2014 We get it, change has to come from the top, like Moses on Mount Sinai. But is this really the best way to mark International […]