Anderson-Gough et al. (2005) interviewed a male auditor who said that he had the support of the wife to deal with the personal responsibilities in the private domain so that he could concentrate on his career. This suggests that gender ideology is still prevalent in accounting firms where husbands expect wives to have most of the domestic responsibilities associated with raising children. In fact, longitudinal and cross-cultural research by Blossfeld and Drobnic (2001) found that while the behaviour of women has changed to accommodate the dual earner family model (i.e. more time in paid work andless time on housework and childcare), husbands’ behaviour has not markedly changed.This appears to be true for Singaporean as well as the Australian accounting firms in this study.