ABSTRACT
This research investigates women’s labour based on accounting research. So, the authors collected bank statistics related with number of working women that pursue managerial careers (Davidson and Burke, 1994; Mirvis and Macy, 1976). Indeed, the Portuguese society is centred on the woman based on the reasons present by Nogueira, Paúl and Amâncio (1995: 209) say,
there is a long tradition of female work in agriculture, both as wage workers and in subsistence farming, as well as [the] textile industry. . . . In 1994, 13.5% of active women worked in agriculture, 24.3% in industry and 62.2% in the services sector.
