GENDER, ETHNICITY AND RACE: DEBIT OR CREDIT ON ACCOUNTING?

Authors

  • José Luiz Borsatto Junior Universidade Paranaense - UNIPARMestrando em Contabilidade - UNIOESTE
  • Evellyn Danielly Zabotti
  • Maria da Piedade Araújo Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22561/cvr.v31i2.4954

Keywords:

Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Accounting, Wage discrimination

Abstract

This research aims to verify whether gender and ethnic-racial discrimination exist in the remuneration of accountants in each geographical region of Brazil. Accountants' remuneration data, extracted from the microdata of the Annual Social Information Report of 2014, were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric modeling. To represent each region, the following states were selected for this research: Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Paraná and São Paulo. Thus, we attempted to explain the behavior of the accountants' remuneration by the following explanatory variables: work time, company size, gender, skin color and education level. The main results confirm the presence of biological sex wage discrimination for women and skin color wage discrimination for self-declared accountants as non-whites. Discrimination by gender reduces, on average, 28.83% the remuneration of women accountants. Discrimination by skin color reduces the pay of men and women, and the combination of skin color and female sex depreciates the salary of self-declared accountants as non-white, on average, 45.19%. It is concluded that wage discrimination by gender and ethno-racial is present in the accounting profession. It should be noted that this situation of black and brown women is aggravated, that is, the discrimination is even greater. Given this salary balance of the accounting profession, the accounts gender, ethnicity and race have debit balance and the balances of these accounts indicate accumulated loss.

Author Biographies

José Luiz Borsatto Junior, Universidade Paranaense - UNIPARMestrando em Contabilidade - UNIOESTE

Mestre em Contabilidade pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE).

Evellyn Danielly Zabotti

Mestra em Contabilidade pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE).

Maria da Piedade Araújo, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Doutora em Economia Aplicada pela Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ-USP).

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Contabilidade, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná.

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Published

2020-07-12

How to Cite

BORSATTO JUNIOR, J. L.; ZABOTTI, E. D.; ARAÚJO, M. da P. GENDER, ETHNICITY AND RACE: DEBIT OR CREDIT ON ACCOUNTING?. Contabilidade Vista & Revista, [S. l.], v. 31, n. 2, 2020. DOI: 10.22561/cvr.v31i2.4954. Disponível em: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/contabilidadevistaerevista/article/view/4954. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2024.