Why Female Accountants Prefer to Change their Job in Zahedan

In order to obtain ideal social and organizational positions, after graduation, many women tend to work in a professional job related to their knowledge and skills. However, under the influence of both internal (in profession) and external (in family) adverse conditions, the application of their knowledge, skills and potential talent would be failed and they cannot achieve an appropriate balance between their life and work. This study aims to investigate the main reasons for which female accountants change their job and sometimes quit the accounting profession. This research evaluates women’s’ professional presence through data collected during the spring 2015 (1395) via deep interviews. Research society includes all female accountants who tend or apply to change their accounting job in Zahedan (Southern east of Iran). The number of such a group of women in public and private sectors could not be determined. An available sample of finally 30 interviewees participated in the research.
It concludes that the main reasons for female accountants to change their posts are to achieve a) better working environment, b) reach peace, and c) more flexibility in work. Salary and earnings are the least important to them; mostly prefer to work in educational environments; and generally have almost no desire to work in tax and managerial accounting.