Is the gender gap history?

That’s the intriguing question that accountants in Canada are asking today.

The new edition of CA magazine from the Canadian Institute of Charted Accountants reports “female CAs 34 and younger now outnumber their male counterparts. Of the nearly 14,000 CAs in this age group, 51% are women and 49% are men.”

This is part of a trend among younger CAs, with the percentage of new members who are women continuing to rise. Fifty-three percent of new CAs admitted in the first six months of 2007 are women, up from 51% in 2006. More at the CICA…