Making Discrimination Visible: the Potential for Social Accounting

Carol Adams and George Harte

Accounting Forum, 2000, vol. 24, issue 1, 56-79

Abstract: We live in a world of immense inequality, poverty and violence. For some the lack of opportunity to achieve their full potential and contribute to a more civilised society is denied them because they look or behave differently, come from the ’wrong’ background, or were simply born in the ’wrong’ part of the world. Many groups, including women, ethnic minorities, ’disabled’ people, gays, lesbians, and others because of their religious beliefs, are discriminated against. In this paper we explore accounting’s potential to reveal discrimination in employment 1 .We do not offer accounting as a simple solution, but rather explore its enabling potential. Finally we consider what form an accounting to make discrimination visible might take and how it might be introduced.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-6303.00029

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