Gender issues: introduction for application in accounting studies.

This work is a review of publications of different contexts, ideological tendencies and issues related to women; a characterization is proposed in Europe, U.S, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Africa, with the aim of identifying some general conditions of the situation and representative authors on the subject, in order to use these results in other writings, linking them together with accounting research. We used a qualitative-documentary methodology, based on the revision of publications on women issues. The most significant result is that in all contexts there are issues, some of greater impact than others, however; some authors emerge in response to the need of proposing solutions or simply to make a public clarification of problems, many of which have had great social significance throughout history