Practitioner's Perspective on “Two Pipelines, One Ceiling: Comparing Canadian Women's Career Paths in Public‐Service Finance Leadership and Accounting‐Firm Partnerships”

Comparing Canadian Women's Career Paths in Public-Service Finance Leadership and Accounting-Firm Partnerships" by Clowes (Forthcoming) analyzes gender equity in leadership by examining women's advancement to senior financial executive positions among Canadian Chartered Professional Accountants (CPAs) in two career pathways: executives in the public sector and partnership in public accounting firms.As a CPA working in the public sector and a primary caregiver for children, I tend to agree with the author regarding the way workplace structures and leadership expectations of the "ideal worker" can impact women's career progression in the public sector, and I detail my views on this below.As well, when I began working at a national accounting firm, the firm's partner routinely encouraged me to ask questions and thoroughly explained to me how accounting concepts were applied in practice.Leaving private practice was a difficult decision-mainly driven by my belief that the public sector would have a