Recent years have seen diversity in the professions improving gradually but female accountants have suffered a setback in the Big 4. Promotions are down generally as you might expect in the downturn but women seem to have got a particularly raw deal this year – from Accountancy Magazine…

The number of new women partners at the Big Four accountancy firms has plummeted by more than half in a massive setback for the firms’ diversity drives.

All of the firms saw significant percentage declines with the wost affected being KPMG, with just 10% of partner promotions being female. Click here for the full article.