TY - JOUR
T1 - Ephemeral promises of happiness : coming out in the Australian accounting profession into the late 2010s
AU - Egan, Matthew
AU - Voss, Barbara d.L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank The University of Sydney Accounting Foundation for funding this project, the participants of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference in 2021, and the European Accounting Association Annual Congress in 2021 for their valuable comments and suggestions. Neither author has any financial or personal relationship with anyone in any of the organizations included in this study, which might threaten or inappropriately influence this work. Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Sydney, as part of the Wiley - The University of Sydney agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank The University of Sydney Accounting Foundation for funding this project, the participants of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference in 2021, and the European Accounting Association Annual Congress in 2021 for their valuable comments and suggestions. Neither author has any financial or personal relationship with anyone in any of the organizations included in this study, which might threaten or inappropriately influence this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Gender, Work & Organization published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/7/18
Y1 - 2023/7/18
N2 - This interview-based study explores how shifting promises of happiness impact on LGBTIQ+ individuals within the workplace. Our study situates within the “Big 4” Australian professional service firms at a time of significant political change, centered around the legislating of marriage equal ity in 2017. Together with statements of support issued by each of these firms, these moves offered an increasing sense that secure promises of happiness were now offered to “out” LGBTIQ+ staff. A shifting of hetero-cis normativities was suggested, offering some sense of greater safety, visibility, connection, and acceptance within these workplaces. However, these promises of happiness remained precarious and did little for issues that mattered most (including promotion), particularly individuals of intersectionality, including ethnically diverse and female individuals.
AB - This interview-based study explores how shifting promises of happiness impact on LGBTIQ+ individuals within the workplace. Our study situates within the “Big 4” Australian professional service firms at a time of significant political change, centered around the legislating of marriage equal ity in 2017. Together with statements of support issued by each of these firms, these moves offered an increasing sense that secure promises of happiness were now offered to “out” LGBTIQ+ staff. A shifting of hetero-cis normativities was suggested, offering some sense of greater safety, visibility, connection, and acceptance within these workplaces. However, these promises of happiness remained precarious and did little for issues that mattered most (including promotion), particularly individuals of intersectionality, including ethnically diverse and female individuals.
KW - Promises of happiness
KW - Happy objects
KW - Coming out
KW - Heterosexual and cis-gendered normativities
KW - Accounting profession/Professional services firms
KW - accounting profession/professional services firms
KW - promises of happiness
KW - heterosexual and cis-gendered normativities
KW - coming out
KW - happy objects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165348488&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/gwao.13043
DO - 10.1111/gwao.13043
M3 - Article
SN - 0968-6673
VL - 30
SP - 2033
EP - 2048
JO - Gender, Work and Organization
JF - Gender, Work and Organization
IS - 6
ER -