The changing portrayal of the employment of women in British banks' and retail companies' corporate annual reports

This paper examines disclosure with respect to gender and employment in the corporate annual reports of major British banking and retail companies during the period 1935-1993. Setting the disclosures in the social, political and economic context of six distinct periods, the authors suggest that the position of women in the two sectors can in part be explained by continuing patriarchal attitudes of management. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.